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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise : 5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition.
In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- conscious behavior and competition in both private...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Hoover Institution Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Hoover Institution Press publication ;
no. 582. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Challenge: Obtaining High-Quality, Affordable Health Care; The Good: Innovation; The Bad: High Costs and a Large UninsuredPopulation; High Costs: No Easy Answer; The Uninsured Population: Many Causes, UncertainConsequences; The Ugly: Backlash against Markets and the Misguided Policy Response; The Backlash against Markets; The Misguided Policy Response; Chapter 2. Five Policy Reforms to Make Markets Work; Increase Individual Involvement inHealth Care Decisions.
- In Private Markets, Reform Taxation of Health SpendingIncrease Cost Sharing in Government Programs; Deregulate Insurance Markets and RedesignMedicare and Medicaid; Deregulate Insurance Markets; Redesign Medicare and Medicaid; Expand Provision of Health Information; Control Anticompetitive Behavior; Reform the Malpractice System; Study the Tax Preference for Nonprofits; Chapter 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; Tax Deductibility; Tax Credit; Insurance-Market Reform.
- Malpractice ReformSummary and Discussion; Effects of Reforms on the Number of Uninsured; Tax Deductibility; Tax Credit; Insurance-Market and Malpractice Reforms; Summary and Discussion; Effects of Reforms on the Federal Budget; Tax Deductibility; Tax Credit; Insurance-Market and Malpractice Reforms; Subsidy for the Chronically Ill; Summary and Discussion; 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 SpendingAppendix D. Estimating the Impact of Policy Reforms on the Federal Budget; Notes; About the Authors; About the Hoover Institution's Working Groupon Health Care Policy; Index; About the Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute.