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...
| Published in: | Independent Review Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 45 - 71 |
|---|---|
| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
Independent Institute
Summer 2009
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=510873779&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 510873779 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10861653 TIR jtl: Independent Review issn: 10861653 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Summer 2009 vid: 14 iid: 1 pid: 2510 pub: Independent Institute artinfo: ui: 510873779 ppf: 45 ppct: 26 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.6MB tig: atl: The Modern Health Care Maze: Development and Effects of the Four-Party System. aug: au: Kroncke, Charles White, Ronald F. su: Health care reform United States sug: subj: United States Health care reform ab: 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. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|