Care And Cost: Current Issues In Health Policy

 America’s ability to deliver quality health care efficiently to its citizens is both an important component of national productivity and a hallmark of a civilized society. Recognizing the critical need to reform and restructure the way the public and the private sectors provide health care, CED trustees launched a study of how market-oriented pol

Table of Contents:
Foreword -- Containing Health Care Cost Escalation and Improving Access to Services: The Search for a Solution -- Adopting Market Incentives in Public-Sector Policies -- Catastrophic and Long-Term Care -- Rationing Access to Advanced Medical Techniques -- Problems and Prospects in Financing Long-Term Care -- Improving the Role of Private Markets in Financing Long-Term Care Services -- Practitioner Issues -- Market Incentives and the Costs of Medical Malpractice -- Medical Research and Teaching in a Market-Driven Health Care System -- Stimulating Product Innovation and Reforming the Health Care Reimbursement System -- Workplace Issues -- What Employers Can Do About Medical Care Costs: Managing Health and Productivity -- Incentives for Reducing the Costs of Disability

About the Author :
Kenneth McLennan, (editor), is president and chief executive officer of the Machinery and Allied Products Institute, a policy research institute whose members represent a broad spectrum of companies from the manufacturing, communications, and transportation industries. Previously, for eight years, Mr. McLennan was Vice President for Industrial Studies for the Committee for Economic Development. During the 1970s, he held a number of important policy positions, including Division Chief at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France (1974-1976), and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor (1972-1974). He has published numerous articles 230 About the Editors and Contributors and, with William Baumol, is co-author of a recent book, Productivity Growth and U.S. Competitiveness. Jack A. Meyer (editor), is founder and president of New Directions For Policy, a research and policy organization that develops, analyzes, and evaluates social policies for government, business and the foundation community. Previously, Mr. Meyer served as Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and was a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was co-director of the CED subcommittee that produced Reforming Health Care: A Market Prescription (1987) and is currently serving as project director for the CED study on the effect of demographic change on the workplace. Mr. Meyer is the author of numerous books on health care policy and frequently testifies before Congressional committees.