| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
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Walras-Pareto lectures |
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Walras-Pareto lectures (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
Fee-for-service medicine and its discontents -- The integration of medical insurance and medical care -- The management of moral hazard and stinting : demand- and supply-side prices -- Selection and the demand side -- Selection and the supply side -- Risk adjustment, market equilibrium, and carveouts : pulling a rabbit out of a hat? |
| Summary |
The health care industry differs from most other industries in that medical pricing is primarily administered by the government and private insurers and in that it uses several types of contracts. Providers may receive a fixed sum for all necessary services within a given period of time, for the necessary services to treat a given condition, or for each specific service. The industry is changing dramatically, offering many natural experiments to aid understanding of the economics of pricing for health care. In Pricing the Priceless, Joseph Newhouse explains the different pricing systems and how they affect resource allocation and efficiency, focusing on the efficiency of pricing. He also discusses larger issues of equity, fair distribution of burden, and social justice. Although most of the examples are American-based, the same issues arise in all medical care financing and delivery systems, and the theories and models are general enough to apply to many institutional contexts. The topics include Medicare, managed care, the contemporary integration of health insurance and medical care, the management of moral hazard and stinting, uncertainty and risk aversion, the demand for health insurance, agency relationships, information disparities, regulation, and supply-side and demand-side selection |
| Analysis |
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law |
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ECONOMICS/Public Economics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
| Subject |
Medical care -- United States.
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Medical economics -- United States
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Health insurance -- United States.
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Medical economics.
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Economics, Medical
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National Health Insurance, United States
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Health Policy -- economics
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Insurance, Health -- economics
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Health insurance
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Medical care
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Medical economics
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Gesundheitsökonomie
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Gezondheidszorg.
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Economie.
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Ziektekostenverzekering.
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Medical care -- United States.
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Medical economics -- United States.
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Health insurance -- United States.
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Assurance-maladie.
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Soins médicaux.
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Économie de la santé
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United States
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USA
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Verenigde Staten.
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États-Unis.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262280600 |
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0262280604 |
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0585437076 |
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9780585437071 |
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0262140799 |
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9780262140799 |
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