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| Preface | |
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| Detailed Contents | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| An Introduction to the Economics of Medical Care | |
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| Appendix: Review of Demand, Supply, Equilibrium Price, Price Elasticity, and Competitive and Monopoly Analysis | |
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| The Role of Government in Health and Medical Care | |
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| Health Policy and the Legislative Marketplace | |
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| The Production of Health: The Impact of Medical Services on Health | |
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| Appendix: Cost-Benefit, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Utility Analyses | |
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| An Overview of the Medical Care Sector | |
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| The Demand for Medical Care | |
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| Appendix: The Effect of Coinsurance on the Demand for Medical Care | |
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| The Demand for Health Insurance | |
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| Risk Neutral and Risk Seeking Behavior | |
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| The Effect on the Insurance Premium of Extending Coverage to Include Additional Benefits | |
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| The Supply of Medical Care: An Overview | |
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| Market Competition in Medical Care | |
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| The Market for Health Insurance: Its Performance and Structure | |
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| The Use of Medical Loss Ratios as a Measure of Health Plan Performance | |
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| Developing Risk-Adjusted Premiums | |
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| The Physician Services Market | |
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| Appendix: How Medicare Pays Physicians | |
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| The Market for Hospital Services | |
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| Using a Physician Control Model to Increase Physician Productivity | |
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| Cost Shifting | |
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| The Pharmaceutical Industry | |
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| Health Manpower Shortages and Surpluses: Definitions, Measurement, and Policies | |
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| The Market for Physician Manpower | |
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| The Market for Medical Education: Equity and Efficiency | |
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| The Market for Registered Nurses | |
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| Appendix: Market Structure and Nurse Wages and Employment | |
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| National Health Insurance: An Approach to the Redistribution of Medical Care | |
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| Concluding Comments on the Economics of Medical Care | |
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| Appendix: Measuring Changes in the Price of Medical Care | |
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| Appendix: Health Insurance Premiums as a Measure of the Price of Medical Care | |
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| Glossary | |