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Healthy, wealthy, and wise: 5 steps to a better health care system
2011, Hoover Institution Press, AEI Press
in English
- 2nd ed.
0817910646 9780817910648
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Table of Contents
1. The challenge: obtaining high-quality, affordable health care. The good : innovation ; The bad : high costs and and a large uninsured population ; The ugly : backlash against markets and the misguided policy response
2. Five policy reforms to make markets work. Increase individual involvement in health care decisions ; Deregulate insurance markets and redesign Medicare and Medicaid ; Expand provision of health information ; Control anticompetitive behavior ; Reform the malpractice system ; Study the tax preference for nonprofits
3. Impacts of proposals on health care spending, the uninsured, the federal budget, and the distribution of tax burdens. Effects of reforms on health care spending ; Effects of reforms on the number of uninsured ; Effects of reforms on the federal budget ; Distributional impact
Conclusion
Appendix A. Estimating the impact of policy reforms on health care spending
Appendix B. Estimating the impact of policy reforms on uninsurance
Appendix C. Derivation of the elasticity of total health care spending with respect to the after-tax price of out-of-pocket spending
Appendix D. Estimating the impact of policy reforms on the federal budget.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-146) and index.
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