LEADER 04558oam 2200661I 450 001 9910970722503321 005 20251117084639.0 010 $a1-136-21502-6 010 $a1-283-58644-4 010 $a9786613898890 010 $a0-203-09562-6 010 $a1-136-21503-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203095621 035 $a(CKB)2670000000237939 035 $a(EBL)1016099 035 $a(OCoLC)810077912 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000705138 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12229538 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000705138 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10636199 035 $a(PQKB)10077455 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1016099 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1016099 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10596401 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389889 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134751 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000237939 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHealth policy and the public interest /$fLok Sang Ho 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-415-70578-9 311 08$a0-415-66480-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Functional health and the health stock; 2 A framework for risk and health policy analysis; 3 Insurance, moral hazard and adverse selection; 4 Health policy evaluation; 5 Health policy in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: settling down to a model?; 6 Publicly funded healthcare systems: United Kingdom and Canada; 7 Singapore: Medisave, Medishield, Medifund and ElderShield; 8 Universal publicly funded basic healthcare in Australia and New Zealand 327 $a9 Three European countries: France, Switzerland and Sweden10 The American market-based system; 11 The way forward; Notes; References; Subject index; Name index 330 $a"This book is written with an acute awareness of the need for new insight to ensure (1) universal protection in basic healthcare; (2) providing choice; (3) efficient production and consumption of healthcare services; (4) financial sustainability of the healthcare system. Defining the public interest as the welfare of the "representative individual" with no vested interest who imagines himself to have equal chance of being anyone in society, this book explores alternative ways of finance and delivery, the optimal interface between the public healthcare sector and the private healthcare sector, and that between public insurance and private insurance. The book includes a theoretical but non-technical section that distinguishes between the stock of health and functional health, proposes a utility maximizing/behavioural framework to explain behaviour and the role of health policy and investigates the nature of risk and alternative insurance mechanisms. The book illustrates with a number of country studies, covering a large range of healthcare systems from the American and the European systems to various Asian systems as well as those of Australia and New Zealand. The survey of country experiences reinforces the theoretical conclusions about the role of the public healthcare sector and social insurance and that of the private market. The book highlights the importance of and the workability of "pricing right" and "capping right": pricing standard or basic healthcare services at the right price can contain both demand-side and supply-side moral hazard and lead to more efficient production and consumption of healthcare services; capping annual eligible healthcare expenses will provide effective protection against financial risks. The proposal of lifetime healthcare supplement offers greater choice. Private caregivers and insurers supplement the public healthcare system by offering more choices and premium services, as well as additional protection"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMedical policy 606 $aPublic interest 615 0$aMedical policy. 615 0$aPublic interest. 676 $a362.1 686 $aBUS000000$aBUS069000$2bisacsh 700 $aHo$b Lok-sang.$0879837 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970722503321 996 $aHealth policy and the public interest$94491662 997 $aUNINA