Health Care Market Deviations from the Ideal Market
SQUMJ-Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal. 2011; 11 (3): 328-337
in English
| IMEMR
| ID: emr-122744
ABSTRACT
A common argument in the health policy debate is that market forces allocate resources efficiently in health care, and that government intervention distorts such allocation. Rarely do those making such claims state explicitly that the market they refer to is an ideal in economic theory which can only exist under very strict conditions. This paper explores the strict conditions necessary for that ideal market in the context of health care as a means of examining the claim that market forces do allocate resources efficiently in health care
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IMEMR (Eastern Mediterranean)
Main subject:
Public Sector
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Health Care Reform
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Efficiency, Organizational
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Economic Competition
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Economics, Hospital
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Health Policy
Type of study:
Health economic evaluation
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Sultan Qaboos Univ. Med. J.
Year:
2011
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