National health policy: Efficiency-equity synchretism |
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Authors: | Roger M. Battistella Robert J. Buchanan |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Human Service Studies, Cornell University, 14853-4401 Ithaca, New York |
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Abstract: | A new emphasis in national health policy to encourage efficiency has been born in an environment of slower economic growth and an aging population. The increased reliance on market incentives to reduce health care costs does not signal the abandonment of equity as a social objective. To the contrary, the new emphasis on efficiency is intended to provide more and better health care through the generation of savings from the use of management systems to improve productivity. Market incentives and new management systems to increase efficiency are not the antithesis of equity but tools to provide better health care to the poor and to the elderly in an environment of fiscal constraints. |
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Keywords: | efficiency equity management science vertical integration cost effectiveness |
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