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Pricing the priceless : a health care conundrum

Title
Pricing the priceless : a health care conundrum / Joseph P. Newhouse.
Author
Newhouse, Joseph P.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.

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Description
viii, 258 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"In Pricing the Priceless, Joseph Newhouse explains the different pricing systems and how they affect resource allocation and efficiency. All pricing arrangements, he explains, involve trade-offs. The advantages of more inclusive bases of payment, for example, may be offset by incentives for providers to select good risks or to stint on the delivery of services."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
The Walras-Pareto lectures
Uniform Title
Walras-Pareto lectures (Unnumbered)
Subject
  • Medical care > United States
  • Medical economics > United States
  • Health insurance > United States
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Economics, Medical
  • Insurance, Health
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index.
Contents
1. Fee-for-Service Medicine and Its Discontents -- 2. The Integration of Medical Insurance and Medical Care -- 3. The Management of Moral Hazard and Stinting: Demand- and Supply-Side Prices -- 4. Selection and the Demand Side -- 5. Selection and the Supply Side -- 6. Risk Adjustment, Market Equilibrium, and Carveouts: Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat?
ISBN
0262140799 (hc. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002024407
OCLC
  • ocm49415620
  • SCSB-4793327
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries