Health Care Policy
Lessons from the Past and Issues of the Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9761075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S E Berki (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 468 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 231-246 |
| Publication date | 1983-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716283468001016 |
| PMID | 10261427 |
| OpenAlex | W2161942882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Liberal distributional values, the increasingly powerful capacity of medicine to provide more and better care, and concern about the health hazards of an industrial society fueled the vast expansion of the health care sector during the last 20 years. That growth was facilitated by a growing economy. The current health policy debate at one level reexamines the distributional bases of entitlement programs, and at another seeks alternative resource allocation mechanisms to reduce the cost of health care. This article has two themes. First, distributional and allocational policies are shown to be intrinsically related, so that the health policy debate is fundamentally a clash between liberal and libertarian values. Second, the inexorable social forces driving the health care system are shown to be the aging of the population and the rapid expansion of technology. The resulting dynamics imply the further growth of the health sector, now in the environment of a sluggish economy. Future policies will have to struggle with how to ration scarce health resources and how to reorient the health care sector to the problems of the aged
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Entitlement (fair division · Environmental health · Health care · Political science · Population · Public economics · Economic, Social, and Health Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Health Policy
Shifting involvements
Deregulating the Health Care Industry
National Health Policy
A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare
Policy Implications of the Diffusion and Control of Medical Technology
Financing the Health Care of the Aged
Allocative Medicine
The Fall of the House of Efficiency
The Competition Strategy for Medical Care
Equity of Access to Medical Care
An Aging Population and the Use of Medical Care
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |