Full Description
America's ability to deliver quality health care efficiently to its citizens is both an important component of national productivity and a hallmark of a civilized society. Recognizing the critical need to reform and restructure the way the public and the private sectors provide health care, CED trustees launched a study of how market-oriented pol
Contents
Foreword -- Containing Health Care Cost Escalation and Improving Access to Services: The Search for a Solution -- Adopting Market Incentives in Public-Sector Policies -- Catastrophic and Long-Term Care -- Rationing Access to Advanced Medical Techniques -- Problems and Prospects in Financing Long-Term Care -- Improving the Role of Private Markets in Financing Long-Term Care Services -- Practitioner Issues -- Market Incentives and the Costs of Medical Malpractice -- Medical Research and Teaching in a Market-Driven Health Care System -- Stimulating Product Innovation and Reforming the Health Care Reimbursement System -- Workplace Issues -- What Employers Can Do About Medical Care Costs: Managing Health and Productivity -- Incentives for Reducing the Costs of Disability
