Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Another Book About Healthcare? -- Part I: WHEN MEDICAL MARKETS MEET HUMAN NATURE -- Chapter 1: Can Americans Shop Their Way to More Affordable Care? -- Chapter 2: Shopping in the Dark -- Chapter 3: Who's in Charge? The...

This book provides key economic facts, explains the economic concepts needed to examine the implications of these facts, and summarizes the results of empirical studies regarding our healthcare system's access, cost, and quality problems as well as identifying six key trends that are reforming...

"Health Policy Issues, Eighth Edition provides not only information for those unfamiliar with all the aspects of the U.S. healthcare system, but includes a discussion of the major health policies issues and applies basic economic concepts for understanding and resolving them. The economic...