Economics of U.s. Health Care Policy The Role of Market Forces

Designed for courses in health care economics and policy analysis, this comprehensive work places the issues and economic analysis in the context of market forces on the health care industry that include negotiated markets and managed care. The content is rich with applicable, understandable economic concepts and analysis, market failure and the mix of private versus government involvement. Some of the major policy issues covered are the pricing of pharmaceutical drugs, the medically uninsured, Medicaid reform, for-profit hospital monopoly price power, managed care competitive pricing, and new negotiated markets.Musgrave, Frank W. is the author of 'Economics of U.s. Health Care Policy The Role of Market Forces', published 2006 under ISBN 9780765612564 and ISBN 0765612569.