What Politics May Be Telling Us About Cost- Effectiveness Analysis
- Topics:
- Healthcare Services
- Source:
- Project HOPE
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Overview: Like many tools of contemporary economics, cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) has found greater success in the academy and among government policy analysts than it has in the "real world" of health services. The paper depicts about the analysis of how a cultural or political opposition to limits - as opposed to dissatisfaction with CEA as actually practiced; as opposed to a preference for adaptive, decentralized consideration of costs; as opposed to political failures on the part of its supporters; and as opposed to concerns about tort liability - is responsible for CEA's short reach in the United States.
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Format: PDF | Size: 60KB | Date: Aug 2005 | Pages: 2




