Series |
Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 582 Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 582. ^A283591
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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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-146) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2011282407 |
ISBN | 0817910646 |
ISBN | 9780817910648 |