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Why we spend too much on health care : and what we can do about it

Title: Why we spend too much on health care : and what we can do about it / by Joseph L. Bast, Richard C. Rue, and Stuart A. Wesbury, Jr.
Author: Bast, Joseph L. (Joseph Lee), 1958-
Publication: Chicago : Heartland Institute ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed by arrangement with University Press of America, ©1993.

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Description

xvi, 155 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Provides an overview of the many factors that contribute to high health care costs and high spending levels.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-148) and index.

Contents

1. What Do We Mean By "Too Much"? Cost vs. Spending. Measurement Problems. Relevant Comparisons. Subjectivity of Values. How We Know Spending is Too High. Policy Implications -- 2. International Comparisons. Percent of GDP. Per-capita Spending. How We Compare -- 3. Why Health Care Costs Are So High. Wealth and Culture. Geography and Heterogeneity. Sex, Crime, and Disease. The Beginning and End of Life. Technology and Law. Can We Change? -- 4. Why We Spend Too Much. Government Subsidies. Taxation of Health Insurance Premiums. Government as Regulator. These We Can Change -- 5. Non-Solutions. The Problem of the Uninsured. National Health Insurance. Managed Competition. Mandatory Employer-Provided Insurance. Socialized Medicine -- 6. Better Solutions. A Fresh Start. The NCPA Plan. The ALEC Plan -- 7. Where We Go From Here. What You Can Do. A Parting Thought.

ISBN

0963202715
9780963202710
0963202723
9780963202727

LCCN

93009710

OCLC

ocm27728009
27728009
SCSB-2007696

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Princeton University Library