Health Services in the Mixed Economy

Anthony Culyer

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Abstract: Abstract Although the continuing existence of the National Health Service is not, and is not likely to become, seriously questioned in any practical options put before the country, there is today a growing scepticism about the appropriateness of the NHS as a way of organising the nation’s health care that is particularly evinced by recent ministerial predictions about the likely growth of private relative to NHS practice over the next decade. After a period of quiescence, it seems that an old argument about the rival merits of state and market provision of health services is in the process of resurrection. It may therefore be timely to review some of the arguments that have been made in earlier rounds of this controversy, and to ask whether there is reason to suppose that the balance between the public and the private sectors has become out of tune with today’s needs.

Keywords: Health Service; Moral Hazard; Adverse Selection; Agency Role; Compulsory Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07419-8_7

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