The Economics of Health and Health Care

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The book synthesizes contemporary developments around a set of basic economic principles, including maximization of consumer utility and economic profit. Rather than organizing the book around the institutions specific to health care economy, we have used core economics themes as basic as supply and demand, as venerable as technology or labor issues, and as modern as the economics of information. We have divided the 24 chapters into six parts: 1. Basic economic tools; 2. Supply and demand; 3. Information and insurance markets; 4. Key players in the health care sector; 5. Social insurance; 6. Special topics