On the Fuzzy Boundaries between Public and Private in Health-Care Organization and Funding Systems

Alessandro Petretto ()

Rivista di Politica Economica, 2013, issue 1, 327-370

Abstract: The paper proposes a theoretical survey of health-care organization and funding systems, by underlining and discussing the combination public versus private provision and production of social assistance services. The survey then examines the present features of various National health services, focusing on the efficiency and equity of public intervention and on the industrial organization of the institutional design of health care. Hence, the paper treats the cost-benefit of vertical integration of structures, devoted respectively to purchasing and providing health-care services, it considers the effects of managed competition in quasi-markets and, finally, it deals with supplementary insurance systems.

Keywords: health-care organization; health-care funding; social insurance; private and public provision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H1 H4 I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: On the Fuzzy Boundaries between Public and Private in Health Care Organization and Funding Systems (2010)
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