The Business of Health Care in the United States: What is Wrong with the Standard of Economic Efficiency?

Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law, Vol. 10, pp. 87-109, 2008

23 Pages Posted: 17 May 2009 Last revised: 19 Jan 2018

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A. de Ruijter

University of Amsterdam - Law Centre for Health and Life

Date Written: 2008

Abstract

In this paper it is proposed that aiming for economic efficiency in health care policy does not lead to economically efficient outcomes nor does it result in beneficent health care and welfare outcomes. It is argued that the aim of increasing economic efficiency in health care has proven to be flawed and that a different, more suitable standard for legislation, adjudication, and policy making should be adopted in this area.

Keywords: healthcare, economic efficiency

Suggested Citation

de Ruijter, Anniek, The Business of Health Care in the United States: What is Wrong with the Standard of Economic Efficiency? (2008). Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law, Vol. 10, pp. 87-109, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1406002

Anniek De Ruijter (Contact Author)

University of Amsterdam - Law Centre for Health and Life ( email )

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Amsterdam, 1018 WV
Netherlands

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