Healthy markets?

Peterson, Mark A.

When federal and state policy makersrs" efforts to enact sweeping health care reform in the mid-1990s ended in stalemate, the private sector unleashed initiatives that have affected virtually every aspect of health care. With updated essays first published in issues of theJournal of Health Politics, Policy and Law,Healthy Markets?offers the most comprehensive and critical examination yet found in a single volume of the economic, political, and social implications of this recent market transformation of health care in the United States. With original contributions from leading social science health policy analysts, this volume addresses the full context of health system change. Believing that the analysis of health care change is too important to be left to economists alone, Mark A.^ Peterson has collected a mulitdisciplinary group of experts who revisit the contentious debate over...

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