International health care reform: a legal economic and political analysis
- London Routledge 2003
- xvii, 315p.
Concerns about the quality, cost and accessibility of health care bedevil every country. A key challenge in the twenty-first century be the capacity of governance structures to ensure a just and efficient distribution of health care. The book analyses the wave of competition-oriented reform by comparing internal market reform managed competition reform and the role of managed care in each of these reforms theories. The ability of these new reforms models to ensure the accountability of decision makers is compared as is their flexibility in allowing innovation in the delivery of health care, their responses to the problems of monopoly in delivery and their responses to ensuring the quality of care delivered.