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Incentives and choice in health care / edited by Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper.

Title
Incentives and choice in health care / edited by Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Kasper, Hirschel.
  • Sloan, Frank A.
Description
ix, 419 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Delivery of Health Care > economics
  • Economic Competition
  • Economics, Medical
  • Health Care Costs
  • Health Services > economics
  • Insurance, Health > economics
  • Medical economics > United States
  • Medical economics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]405) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
To find an answer, one must know the question : health economics and public policy / Henry J. Aaron -- Health capital : theory and empirical evidence / Donna Gilleskie -- What we know and don't know about the effects of cost sharing on the demand for medical care - and so what? / Joseph P. newhouse and Anna D. Sinaiko -- Adverse selection and moral hazard : implications for health insurance markets / Mark V. Pauly -- Direct-to-consumer advertising in health care : an overview of economic issues / Ernst R. Berndt and Julie M. Donohue -- Reefer Madness, Frank the Tank, or Pretty Woman : to what extent do addictive behaviors respond to incentives? / John Cawley -- Medical career choices and rates of return / Sean Nicholson -- The effects of incentives on pharmaceutical innovation / Frank A. Sloan and Chee-Ruey Hsieh -- Physician fees and behavior : implications for structuring a fee schedule / Thomas G. McGuire -- Physician pay for performance : alternative perspectives / Brian R. Golden and Frank A. Sloan -- Competition, information provision, and hospital quality / Gautam Gowrisankaran -- Summing up / Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper.
ISBN
  • 9780262195775 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0262195771 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780262693653 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262693658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007039861