President Barack Obama, former U.S. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, and others propose a new government agency that would evaluate the relative effectiveness of medical treatments. The need for "comparative-effectiveness research" is great. Evidence suggests Americans spend $700 billion...

In an attempt to curb the continuing surge in health care expenditure, many governments either mandate or encourage managed care (MC) plans in health insurance. Since MC plans limit patient choice with regard to physicians, hospitals, drugs, and other dimensions of health care, a natural...

Whereas in the United States, managed care (MC) plans have been part of the health care system for quite some time, they are still little known in European systems. In Germany in particular, policy makers would like to see a broad majority of the insured population shift to MC plans, hoping to...

This paper reviews the current Corona virus situation, then examines the legal definitions of negligence and fiduciary duty in an attempt to determine whether closing a university because of health concerns over the Corona virus might result in legal liability for the university’s board...

This paper presents an overview of the Corona virus situation and examines the literature that seems to suggest that some, or perhaps much of the reporting of Corona virus deaths is actually the result of deliberate misclassification. The accounting and legal literature is also examined to...

COVID-19, also known as the Corona virus, has been labeled a pandemic based on the number of actual and potential deaths. However, there is mounting evidence from both official sources and unofficial reports that the death count is being inflated, at least in the United States. This paper...

Cost-effectiveness analysis is versatile and used widely to assist in health care decision making. This chapter discusses how cost-effectiveness analysis is used at the system or national level, particularly in the domain of coverage and payment policy. We describe its relationship to other...

Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they neglect the competition between health care providers for...

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...

Questo Working Paper porta un esempio di criterio di ripartizione del Fsn tra le Regioni. Il criterio rimane coerente, in termini generali, con le indicazioni contenute nel "Decreto legislativo in materia di autonomia di entrata delle Regioni a statuto ordinario e delle Province, nonché...