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The Health Care Marketplace
Warren Greenberg
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Description for The Health Care Marketplace
Paperback. Num Pages: 170 pages, 9 black & white tables. BIC Classification: KJMV5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 290.
This book is an economist's view of the health care marketplace. It exam ines the incentives of physicians, patients, firms and the role of government in the health care sector in a world of limited resources. Several themes run through this book. First, health care is a business. To an economist this means that firms maximize profits. Perhaps this is not always so, but I have yet to see a better theory of how health care firms behave. The health care industry, therefore, is not much different in eco nomic terms from other industries. At one time, economists pointed to ... Read more
This book is an economist's view of the health care marketplace. It exam ines the incentives of physicians, patients, firms and the role of government in the health care sector in a world of limited resources. Several themes run through this book. First, health care is a business. To an economist this means that firms maximize profits. Perhaps this is not always so, but I have yet to see a better theory of how health care firms behave. The health care industry, therefore, is not much different in eco nomic terms from other industries. At one time, economists pointed to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461272373
SKU
V9781461272373
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99-15
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