New Directions in Public Health Care: A Prescription for the 1980's

by Cotton M. Lindsay

Overview

This volume is a revised edition of The Institute for Contemporary Study's report on national health insurance. It includes an analysis of legislation currently before Congress; an examination of hos-pital cost increases and cost containment; an in-vestigation of the politics of the National Health Insurance which asks if any major interest group involved in health care wants increased competi-tion; new research on both the NHS in Britain and Canada's relatively recent experiments with full NHI; an update on public health care; a considera-tion of the relationship between health and health care; a discussion of the subsidy of health care; and an analysis of the market for medical care and the effects of an NHI on the market for physicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780917616372
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/1980
Edition description:	3d ed
Pages:	287
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1: Medical Care and the Pursuit of Health *; 2: Government and Health *; 3: The Lessons of Centralized Medicine; 4: More Evidence on Britain and Canada; 5: The Organization of Medical Care Markets; 6: The Administration’s Case for Hospital Cost Containment; 7: Public Sector Medicine: History and Analysis; 8: Proposals under Consideration*; 9: The Long-Run Effects of National Health Insurance on Medical Care Prices and Output *; 10: Does Anyone Want Competition? The Politics of NHI; 11: Your Very Good Health*; 12: Recapitulation and Coda