In his Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1967, p.168), Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich A. von Hayek explains that “from the first establishment of (trade) which served reciprocal but not common purposes, a process has been going on for millennia which, by making rules of conduct...

"Problems related to the functioning of public healthcare systems encourage the search for alternative solutions, for example to ensure improved access to medical services. However, these proposals also require appropriate theoretical support to better present and apply them. This book draws on...

IntroductionPART 1. MARKET PROCESSES IN THE HEALTH SYSTEM 1. Insurance as a market institution 2. Alternative market forms of financing access to medical services 3. The health system as an element of the market economy PART 2. UNIVERSAL (PUBLIC) HEALTH SYSTEM AS AN EFFECT OF STATE INTERVENTIONS...