Jean DE KERVASDOUÉ - Medical Progress and Health Policy : Should Health Care Spending be Limited ?

Pouvoirs n°89 - Le pouvoir médical - avril 1999 - p.79-100

The vast majority of economists dealing with health care claim it is absolutely necessary to cut the health care budget. This is a paradoxical position since, by their very nature, these expenses are noble, and this sector contributes added value of the economy. The article tries to demonstrate that a possible privatization of the financing of health care would not reduce but rather increase the costs and would, in addition, exclude more people and increase the employers’ labor costs. The reason why health spending should be controlled is not the fact that it is Résumé

Référence électonique : Jean DE KERVASDOUÉ, "Medical Progress and Health Policy : Should Health Care Spending be Limited ?", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°89, 1999, p.79-1. Consulté le 02-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/Medical-Progress-and-Health-Policy.html