Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum (Walras-Pareto Lectures) Reviews

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Release: 2002-09-09
Publisher: The MIT Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0262140799
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Winner of the 2003 Certificate of Excellence presented by the TIAA-CREF Institute

The health care industry differs from most other industries in that medical pricing is primarily administered by the government and private insurers and in that it uses several types of contracts. Providers may receive a fixed sum for all necessary services within a given period of time, for the necessary services to treat a given condition, or for each specific service. The industry is changing dramatically, offering many natural experiments to aid understanding of the economics of pricing for health care.

In Pricing the Priceless, Joseph Newhouse explains the different pricing systems and how they affect resource allocation and efficiency, focusing on the efficiency of pricing. He also discusses larger issues of equity, fair distribution of burden, and social justice. Although most of the examples are American-based, the same issues arise in all medical care financing and deliv Download Pricing the Priceless for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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