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The Political Economy of Health Care

In: Health Economics

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  • Peter Zweifel

    (University of Zurich)

  • Friedrich Breyer

    (University of Konstanz)

  • Mathias Kifmann

    (University of Augsburg)

Abstract

Whenever a normative statement was made in Chapters 5 to 12, it was based on the efficiency criteria of welfare economics. This left open the issue of whether a Pareto-optimal design of a health care system might ever be achieved. Therefore, this chapter raises the question of what determines the actual (rather than any desired) institutional structure of a health care system. This type of question is the topic of ‘Political Economy’, also known as ‘Public Choice’. This is a comparatively recent field of theoretical and empirical research into behavior in the political domain.1 With regard to health policy and regulation, the following agents can be distinguished.

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  • Peter Zweifel & Friedrich Breyer & Mathias Kifmann, 2009. "The Political Economy of Health Care," Springer Books, in: Health Economics, chapter 13, pages 429-446, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-68540-1_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68540-1_13
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