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Government health insurance and privatization: An examination of the concept and of equity
Author(s) -
Anderson Odin W.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.4740030105
Subject(s) - equity (law) , economic interventionism , government (linguistics) , welfare , capitalism , democracy , private equity , public economics , business , economics , finance , market economy , political science , politics , law , philosophy , linguistics
Abstract After almost a century of the evolution of welfare capitalism in the liberal‐democratic countries, and the spread of government intervention in the financing and provision of health services, the debate is now whether or not government can, or should, be as all‐encompassing as it has clearly become. What is emerging with greater force is a pattern of private insurance and private provision, though its future is not easy to predict. What is clear, however, is that a modified version of a politically acceptable concept of equity will have to be formulated.