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- Title
Visions of Health Policy: A Comparative Case Study of Seven Modern Countries.
- Authors
Chatterjee, Pranab; Miller, David; Chatterjee, Manjirnath A.
- Abstract
Following health-care models of four visionaries (Bismarck, Beveridge, Pearson, and Flexner) as applied to seven industrial countries, the authors argue that health care, when envisioned as a public good leading to either a social right or a social utility, leads to substantially reduced costs without any visible loss of quality. In contrast, when it is seen as a purely private good that can be subjected to market transactions as a commodity, costs may increase, and there is a loss of quality and universal coverage. Further, a vision of health care as a public good often leads to monopsonistic practices by a central authority, usually the state, which in turn contributes greatly to cost control even if the system is not a single-payer model.
- Subjects
HEALTH policy; PUBLIC goods; SOCIAL &; economic rights; NATIONAL health services; VISIONARIES
- Publication
Social Development Issues (Follmer Group), 2013, Vol 35, Issue 3, p18
- ISSN
0147-1473
- Publication type
Article