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B Abel-Smith

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PubMed1980

Political pendulum swings as clocks chime in the decade.

It's only decades that inspire which are given the accolade of a memorable prefix; the naughty nineties, roaring twenties, swinging sixties. Perhaps in this respect the past decade never stood a chance. For, as Professor Brian Abel-Smith, a long time adviser to successive governments at the DHSS explains, the high hopes with which the seventies started were soon dashed. Looking further ahead through the next ten years he outlines the major difficulties which will beset us and asks whether we have the political will and economic ingenuity to face up to them.

Health Policy↗
PubMed1978

Minimum adequate levels of personal health care: history and justification.

By giving everyone paper rights to health care, Americans may end up doing little better, at much greater cost, and feeling worse about it. The key to providing greater equity may be to find a way of defining the minimum that all should have. Most countries somehow define these limits for publicly provided services from education to cash assistance. But for health care benefits there are no simple limiting criteria--especially when professionals have the exceptional luxury of using whatever resources they choose. A realistic floor requires toughly maintained ceilings.

Delivery of Health Care↗
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[Between the public and the private. New incentives in health care].

This paper discusses some of the proposals regarding the improvement of the efficiency in the delivery of health care services. Several countries have implemented different strategies based on the experience of the Health Maintenance Organizations, which have used the market to stimulate competition between providers and insurance companies. One of the proposals includes the creation of agencies that would compete in quality and in price. Another one implies the creation of a National Health Service capable of hiring public or private services from local agencies. The ideal strategy would enable a consumer to choose between insurance companies and public and private providers, and would hopefully create cost conditions reasonably correlated with the efficiency and quality of the rendered services.

Delivery of Health Care↗