Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: cost containment and the governance of heath care
  • Health care governance in the British NHS to 1989: a hybrid of corporatism and state hierarchy
  • The British reforms: markets, managers, and the challenge to corporatism
  • The corporatist settlement in German national health insurance
  • The German reforms: grafting the market onto corporatism
  • The autonomy of the solo practitioner in a liberal health care system: the United States
  • Market reform as "unmanaged competition": the United States
  • Conclusion: the limits of markets in health care.