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Do health system reforms stand a chance?

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While most major reforms of health systems fail, those that succeed are motivated by politicians' quest for reducing the health burden on their budget in response to a shift in voters' preferences away from public health. An Edgeworth box is used to depict their preferences, in addition to those of (potential) patients and health‐care providers. Politicians are found to severely constrain the area of mutual advantage, suggesting that only minor reforms are possible unless they promise to lower health‐care expenditure. An efficiency‐enhancing change that would enlarge the box and hence the area of mutual advantage would be to suppress the requirement imposed on health insurers to purchase domestically, rather than being free to directly import health‐care services and drugs.

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  • Peter Zweifel, 2019. "Do health system reforms stand a chance?," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(2), pages 232-242, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecaffa:v:39:y:2019:i:2:p:232-242
    DOI: 10.1111/ecaf.12343
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