Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 341 pages
- Published by: Health Administration Press
- Edition: 2nd Edition November 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1567931936
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1567931938
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Review
"Tom Rice has done all of us in health a favor. In succinct, accissible-at time even delightful-prose, he has expressed so many of our concerns about what sometimes passes for 'conventional' health economics." --
Gavin Mooney, Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics, University of Sydney, Australia
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Product Description
This book guides you toward reconsidering the field of health economics as it is taught and practiced. It discusses and analyzes the assumptions that must be met for a competitive market to be successful, concludes that these assumptions are not met in the healthcare field, and provides a number of applications for healthcare policy.
Among the policy issues addressed are:
* Effects of managed care and capitation on patient care
* Access to care by the poor
* Medical savings accounts
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader ReviewsRice strikes the critical balance between review, criticism and prescription of important topics in health care economics. For example, in chapter 5 he refers to the major contributions of libertarian (Nozick) utilitarian and normative (Rawls) thinkers on the question of health equality and health resource allocation. His prescription is relatively egalitarian, but he offers a thorough discussion of alternative ideas. His review of the details of health economics (and the unique challenges that health poses to anyone interested in treating it as a commodity) are insightful. An excellent reader for anyone interested in reconsidering the market model of health care.
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