1st Edition
Markets vs Public Health Systems Perspectives from the Austrian School of Economics
Introduction
PART 1. MARKET PROCESSES IN THE HEALTH SYSTEM
1. Insurance as a market institution
2. Alternative market forms of financing access to medical services
3. The health system as an element of the market economy
PART 2. UNIVERSAL (PUBLIC) HEALTH SYSTEM AS AN EFFECT OF STATE INTERVENTIONS
4. Interventionism in the health system
5. A universal (public) health system
Summary
Biography
Łukasz Jasiński is an economist and researcher at the Faculty of Economics of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (Poland, Lublin).
"Łukasz Jasiński explains flawed public health systems and presents the merits of a genuine market approach. A major innovation is his elaboration of health insurance from an Austrian School perspective."
– Robert P. Murphy, economist and co-author of The Primal Prescription: Surviving the "Sick Care" Sinkhole
"Austrian Economics is a perspective and a methodology that takes the "dismal" out of the so-called "dismal science." More rigorously than any other school of thought, it brings Economics alive with insights about human action, markets, incentives, prices and production. Łukasz Jasiński’s analysis of an issue important to all of us—our health care—is greatly enhanced by his application of the Austrian framework. Anyone who desires to improve health care for everyone should start by reading this book. Your life may someday depend on it."
-Lawrence W. Reed, president emeritus, Foundation for Economic Education--Atlanta, Georgia, USA
