A New Type of Hospital Insurance: A Proposal for an Experiment,

Abstract

The authors propsoe an alternative to present hospital insurance arrangements. The Variable Cost Insurance will results in less rapidly rising hospital costs for two reasons. First, it will penalize hospitals with inefficiencies, and second, it will work toward correcting the bias toward Cadillac-only medicine. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0713945

Entities

People

  • Joseph P. Newhouse
  • Vincent Taylor

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Finance
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Insurance

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Medical or Health Care Field.