How can the increasing cost of health care be contained? Discuss the strategies discussed in Chapter 8 and weigh them against the criteria of effectiveness, cost, and equity.
What will be an ideal response?
Students can consider a number of items. These can include an increase in preventative care, increase in managed care, regulation of prescription drugs, and requiring patients to pay more of their health-care costs. For any alternative, the student should discuss the analytical criteria of effectiveness, cost, and equity. For example, increasing managed care would likely decrease cost given statistics showing this already. The equity issue might be one of the limiting choice or higher income levels having different or more options.
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