The Political Economy of Health Care
Description
Some goods and services are normally left to the market mechanism. Health care is often described as an exception to the rule. Society wants care to be allocated equitably; it wants the financial burden to be kept within bounds; it wants treatments to be both medically effective and economically efficient. These shared concerns lead to a demand for State intervention which this book seeks impartially to appraise and evaluate.
Keywords
Business & EconomicsEconomicsTheoryPublic FinanceMedicalPolitical SciencePolitical EconomyPublic PolicyEconomic Policy
1993Book
Author(s)David A. Reisman
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333585795
LanguageEnglish
