On the Comparative Costing of Military vs Civilian Modes of Health Care Delivery.
Abstract
The end of the draft and the resulting need to compete in the marketplace for medical personnel, as well as the general inflation in the health care sector, has spotlighted the increasing cost of caring for the dependent groups. The question has arisen of whether it might not be cheaper to shift some of this demand for health care to the civilian sector. In the paper the authors examine analytically the appropriate considerations and elements to be compared in the research point out the crucial empirical work necessary to estimate such a model, discover some of the ways in which the analytical construct can provide bounds and directions to the hypotheses to be tested, and finally conjecture some preliminary policy recommendations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA020104
Entities
People
- David Whipple
- Katsuaki Terasawa
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School