The Modern Health Care Maze: Development and Effects of the Four-Party System.

The writers seek to unravel the daunting complexity of the national health care system. They focus on the four-party payment system—composed of first-party patients, second-party providers, third-party payers, and fourth-party employers—upon which, despite its obvious deficiencies, most contemporar...

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Publicado en:Independent Review Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 45 - 71
Autores principales: Kroncke, Charles, White, Ronald F.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Independent Institute Summer 2009
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Sumario:The writers seek to unravel the daunting complexity of the national health care system. They focus on the four-party payment system—composed of first-party patients, second-party providers, third-party payers, and fourth-party employers—upon which, despite its obvious deficiencies, most contemporary reform packages seek to build. The writers assert that meaningful health care reform depends on reducing government's ability to surreptitiously distort the market forces that drive the health care industry and rethinking the American tradition of social engineering via the tax code.