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Health Policy - Choice, Equality and Cost (Hardcover)
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Health Policy - Choice, Equality and Cost (Hardcover)
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This lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the
State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy
people's health care needs. It argues that health care is not a
commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean
that there is a role for social regulation and political
management. Apples and oranges can be left to the buyers and the
sellers. Health care may require an input from the consensus, the
experts, the insurers, the politicians and the bureaucrats as well.
David Reisman makes a fresh contribution to the debate. He argues
that the three policy issues that are of primary importance are
choice, equality and cost. He explores the balance between the
patient, the practitioner and public opinion; the disparities in
outcome indicators and access to medical care; and the escalation
in prices and quantities at the expense of other areas of social
life. Reisman concludes that, despite its significance for the
individual and the nation, there is no single definition of health
or health care. The maximand is a mix. Yet decisions have to be
made. This thought-provoking and insightful book will be of use to
students and scholars of public policy, social policy and health
economics. It will also be of interest to medical practitioners who
want to situate hard choices about health and illness in a broad
multidisciplinary context.
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