Medicine and the market

"Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunns add a fresh dimension: they compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advocates, and liberal supporters of single-payer or government-regulated systems." "In addition to laying out the market-versus-government struggle around the world they assess the leading market practices, such as competition, physician incentives, and co-payments for their economic and health efficacy to determine whether they work as advertised."--Jacket.