Download This PaperThe Business of Health Care in the United States: What is Wrong with the Standard of Economic Efficiency?
Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law, Vol. 10, pp. 87-109, 2008
23 Pages Posted: 17 May 2009 Last revised: 19 Jan 2018
Date Written: 2008
Abstract
In this paper it is proposed that aiming for economic efficiency in health care policy does not lead to economically efficient outcomes nor does it result in beneficent health care and welfare outcomes. It is argued that the aim of increasing economic efficiency in health care has proven to be flawed and that a different, more suitable standard for legislation, adjudication, and policy making should be adopted in this area.
Keywords: healthcare, economic efficiency
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de Ruijter, Anniek, The Business of Health Care in the United States: What is Wrong with the Standard of Economic Efficiency? (2008). Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law, Vol. 10, pp. 87-109, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1406002
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