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Health Care, the Market and Consumer Choice (Hardcover)
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Health Care, the Market and Consumer Choice (Hardcover)
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In this well-documented book, Alain Enthoven develops the ideas of
consumer choice and managed competition of alternative health care
financing and delivery systems, as well as describing ways to
improve quality and reduce the cost of health care. He demonstrates
how these ideas could be applied in the American employment-based
health insurance model, how similar ideas have been introduced in
the British National Health Service; how these ideas have been
applied in the Netherlands; and the need for integrated
comprehensive care systems. This unique anthology traces the
development of two important and related themes. Firstly, the
'output' of the health services industry has been produced by
disaggregated physicians, nurses and other health professionals,
hospitals, drugs and device companies that somehow combine to serve
the patient. Progress in quality and the economy requires the
services of these components to be integrated into coherent systems
in which the incentives of all providers are aligned with the needs
and wants of patients for quality affordable care. Secondly, the
book argues that the framework that can provide such incentives, is
an appropriately designed form of market competition among systems
of care seeking to serve value-conscious patients. Public
officials, scholars and policy analysts from developing countries
will find here a set of ideas for how to improve incentives for
greater value for money. Students of health economics, policy and
organization, as well as journalists and public officials
interested in the use of public policy to improve efficiency in
health care systems, will also find much to interest them in this
book.
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