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Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition: Reforming the Health Sector in Eastern Europe

By Janos Kornai , Karen Eggleston

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521790360, 9780521790369, 9780511012310
Open Library ID
OL7754048M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1124297 bytes)
Series
Federico Caff? Lectures
Edition
1
Pages
380\380
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition, and a health economist take on this challenge. They offer health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe, drawn from nine guiding principles. The authors conclude that policymakers need to achieve a balance, both assuring social solidarity through universal access to basic health services and expanding individual choice and responsibility through voluntary supplemental insurance.

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