The Health and Health Care

The Economics of Health and Health Care Health Insurance

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The Health Economics of Bads

No discussion of the health economy can be complete without addressing one of the most prominent and controversial issues—the consumption of...
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Separation of Health Insurance from Employment

Those seeking to redesign a health system can make a good argument for revising or replacing the prevailing system of employer-provided insu...
Health System Reform

Examined national health insurance (NHI) programs in several major industrialized countries. Although the United States established a more c...
The Costs of Universal Coverage

National Health Insurance programs that guarantee universal coverage certainly cost a great deal of money, but it is important to distinguis...
RATIONALES FOR PUBLIC INTERVENTION

Are cigarette smokers well-informed about the risks of smoking so they can make rational choices? Some economists (Lundborg and Lindgren, 20...
MODELS OF ADDICTION

Models of addiction come out of both psychology/medicine and economics. Chaloupka and Warner (1999) identify three types: imperfectly ration...

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