Add to ORKGupon the paradox of the economics of medical care. The anachronistic practices of "cost-reim-bursement " and "multiple pricing " for hospital services and the need for a surrogate "profit " in-centive to increase productivity in this nonprofit sector are discussed. It is the responsibility of both administrators and physicians to understand these economic facts and to support political efforts to achieve reform. Without basic restructuring of health economics, continuing increase in costs and concomitant erosion of the profession's image are predictable and inevitable. The joint endeavor by medicine and govern-ment that is absolutely essential to solve the na-tion's health problems will be possible on...
A look at some of the reasons behind the ascent in health care costs over the last few decades and a...
One commonly held explanation for high and rising health care costs in the United States points to t...
SINCE economists began to turn their attention to matters concerning the efficient allocation of res...
Health care is what economists call a superior good, one that claims an increasing part of the con...
This paper argues that a national health case crisis exists. The crisis is that the United States ev...
Health care costs have doubled over the past 10 years. All consumers, particularly those who are uni...
Rising costs of health care provision throughout the world have provoked a vigorous debate about the...
One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation...
Health, and specifically the cost of health care, is of greatconcern to public policy makers and to ...
There is no doubt that economic issues are becoming more and more relevant also in national health s...
The debate on economic aspects of health care is beset with the conflict of balancing supply and dem...
Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requiremen...
The time is ripe for taking a new look at health-care reform. Between a free market and a government...
Abstract: In this paper we consider a utility-maximization model for health care. On the basis of th...
Regulation of the health care system to achieve appropriate containment of overall costs is characte...
A look at some of the reasons behind the ascent in health care costs over the last few decades and a...
One commonly held explanation for high and rising health care costs in the United States points to t...
SINCE economists began to turn their attention to matters concerning the efficient allocation of res...
Health care is what economists call a superior good, one that claims an increasing part of the con...
This paper argues that a national health case crisis exists. The crisis is that the United States ev...
Health care costs have doubled over the past 10 years. All consumers, particularly those who are uni...
Rising costs of health care provision throughout the world have provoked a vigorous debate about the...
One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation...
Health, and specifically the cost of health care, is of greatconcern to public policy makers and to ...
There is no doubt that economic issues are becoming more and more relevant also in national health s...
The debate on economic aspects of health care is beset with the conflict of balancing supply and dem...
Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requiremen...
The time is ripe for taking a new look at health-care reform. Between a free market and a government...
Abstract: In this paper we consider a utility-maximization model for health care. On the basis of th...
Regulation of the health care system to achieve appropriate containment of overall costs is characte...
A look at some of the reasons behind the ascent in health care costs over the last few decades and a...
One commonly held explanation for high and rising health care costs in the United States points to t...
SINCE economists began to turn their attention to matters concerning the efficient allocation of res...