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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      May 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511492464
      9780521790369
      9780521159371
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511492464
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 380 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 380 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Area Studies, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, European Studies
      Series:
      Federico Caffè Lectures
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Area Studies, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, European Studies
    Series:
    Federico Caffè Lectures
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    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.

    Reviews

    Review of the hardback:‘To judge from its title, Janos Kornai and Karen Eggleston have written a book about health care reform in Eastern Europe. In fact, they have done much more. Following their own axiom of transparency, they begin by setting out goals of health care and other social support systems in a fresh way, and go on to apply the goals to the practical tasks of health care financing and organization. In so doing, they make a large contribution to a small literature, a comparative analytical treatment of many countries’ health care systems together with advice for the would-be reformer.’

    Joseph P. Newhouse - Harvard University

    Review of the hardback:‘A book bringing together a lifelong student of socialism and a highly-trained health economist was likely to produce either a major disconnect or to provide intellectual fireworks through novel ways of dissecting the issues and provocative insights into old problems. Lovers of fireworks should read on.’

    Nicholas Barr - London School of Economics and Political Science

    Review of the hardback:‘[It] gives the reader a number of provocative insights into the health care challenges of the coming decade in Eastern Europe.’

    Source: Health Affairs

    Review of the hardback:‘The authors’ intrinsic knowledge of the political economy of transition countries, their profound understanding of the historic context of the region, and their comprehensive approach to this rather complex topic make the work especially valuable for decision-makers and opinion leaders in Europe. In this context, the book fills a considerable void.’

    Source: Health Affairs

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