TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kornai,János
AU  - Eggleston,Karen
TI  - Welfare, choice, and solidarity in transition: reforming the health section in Eastern Europe 
T2  - Federico Caffè lectures
SN  - 0511012314
AV  - RA395.E852 .K67 2001eb
U1  - 362.1/0947 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Health care reform
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Health planning
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Health Care Reform
KW  - Services de santé
KW  - Réforme
KW  - Europe de l'Est
KW  - Politique sanitaire
KW  - Santé publique
KW  - Planification
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Health Care Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Diseases
KW  - General
KW  - Health Care Delivery
KW  - fast
KW  - Gezondheidszorg
KW  - gtt
KW  - Hervormingen
KW  - ram
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-359) and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. The general principles of reform -- 3. The characteristics of the health sector -- 4. Some international experiences -- 5. The health sector in Eastern Europe: the initial state -- 6. The demand side: financing, benefits, and organization of insurance -- 7. The supply side: delivery-system ownership, organization, and contracting -- 8. The interaction of supply and demand: pricing, payment, hard budget constraints, and overall health-sector development -- 9. Concluding remarks
N2  - Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe, drawn consistently from a set of explicit guiding principles. After discussing sector-specific characteristics, lessons of international experience, and the main set of initial conditions, the authors advocate reforms based on organized public financing for basic care, private financing for supplementary care, pluralistic delivery of services, and managed competition. Policymakers need to achieve a balance, both assuring social solidarity through universal access to basic health services and expanding individual choice and responsibility through voluntary supplemental insurance. The authors also consider the problems that undermine effectiveness of market-based competition in the health sector
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