The U.S. Health Care Industry : Performance and Issues.

This paper describes how economic behavior in the market for health care in the United States is influenced by a range of impediments to the functioning of the price mechanism which impart an upward bias to health care costs and imply efficiency losses. The paper also considers how to reform the hea...

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مؤلف مشترك: International Monetary Fund
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1990.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1990/001
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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