Financing health care:new ideas for a changing society

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Lu Mingshan, Dr; Jonsson Egon
Published: Wiley,
Publisher Address: Weinheim
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Health care and disease management
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Carrier Form: xii, 279 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9783527320271 (alk. paper)
352732027X (alk. paper)
Index Number: R199
CLC: R199.711
Call Number: R199.711/F491
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Åke Blomquist and Egon Jonsson -- Social health insurance: government funding of health care / Åke Blomquist -- Private financing outside the publicly funded system / Mark Stabile -- Prescription drug financing / Steve Morgan -- The economics of consumer-directed health care / Ching- To Albert Ma -- Medical saving accounts: promises and pitfalls / Jeremiah E. Hurley and G. Emmanuel Guindon -- Physician payment mechanisms / Pierre Thomas Léger -- Risk adjustment in health care markets: concepts and applications / Randall P. Ellis -- Inducing quality from health care provider