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The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - The MIT Press

't come through an employer is more than many low- and middle-income households make in a year. Meanwhile, rising healthcare … Healthcare Fix, economist Laurence Kotlikoff proposes a simple, straightforward approach to the problem that would create one …. Because everyone would be insured, it's also a plan for universal healthcare. Participants--including all who are currently …

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The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Burns, Scott - The MIT Press

urgent. Itâ€™s up to us to demand radical reform of our tax system, our healthcare system, and our Social Security system …

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Critical Issues in Taxation and Development

Fuest, Clemens (contributor); Zodrow, George R. (contributor) - The MIT Press

Many developing countries find it difficult to raise the revenue required to provide such basic public services as education, health care, and infrastructure. Complicating the policy challenges of taxation in developing countries are issues that most developed countries do not face, including...

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Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Health Economics

Sloan, Frank A.; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey - The MIT Press

Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance students’ economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the individual and firm level to the market...

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Health Care Turning Point: Why Single Payer Won't Work

Battistella, Roger M. - The MIT Press

In the battle over health care reform we can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas--or we can acknowledge today’s demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point, health policy expert Roger Battistella argues that the conventional wisdom that dominates health policy...

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Health Economics

Sloan, Frank A.; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey - The MIT Press

This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems around the world without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers’ economic...

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Chaos and Organization in Health Care

Lee, Thomas; H., M.D.; Mongan, James; J., M.D. - The MIT Press

in Health Care, two leading physicians offer an optimistic prognosis. In their frontline work as providers, Thomas Lee …

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Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care

Parthasarathy, Shobita - The MIT Press

In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as...

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Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care

Parthasarathy, Shobita - The MIT Press

American provider of BRCA testing to market its services in Britain. British scientists, health-care providers, and patients …

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Public Finance and Public Policy in the New Century

Cnossen, Sijbren (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The sixteen essays in this book were written to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Richard Musgrave and to commemorate the tenth anniversary of CES, the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. Musgrave is considered to be a founding father of modern public economics. He belongs...

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