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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Autor corporatiu: International Monetary Fund
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1990.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1990/001
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF