Arrow’s Concept of the Health Care Consumer: A Forty-Year Retrospective

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface xiii
5. Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care: ‘‘Why Arrow? Why Now?’’ xvii
6. Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care (American Economic Review, 1963) 1
7. PART I Supply, Demand, and Health Care Competition
8. General Equilibrium and Marketability in the Health Care Industry 37
9. Arrow’s Concept of the Health Care Consumer: A Forty-Year Retrospective 49
10. Uncertainty and Technological Change in Medicine 60
11. Human Inputs: The Health Care Workforce and Medical Markets 71
12. Health Care as a (Big) Business: The Antitrust Response 84
13. PART II Risk, Insurance, and Redistribution
14. Health Insurance and Market Failure since Arrow 103
15. Can Efficiency in Health Care Be Left to the Market? 111
16. Valuing Charity 134
17. Medical Service Risk and the Evolution of Provider Compensation Arrangements 142
18. The Role of the Capital Markets in Restructuring Health Care 156
19. PART III Information, Knowledge, and Medical Markets
20. Arrow and the Information Market Failure in Health Care: The Changing Content and Sources of Health Care Information 169
21. The End of Asymmetric Information 181
22. Managing Uncertainty: Intermediate Organizations as Triple Agents 189
23. Moral Hazard vs. Real Hazard: Quality of Care Post-Arrow 202
24. PART IV Social Norms and Professionalization
25. Arrow’s Analysis of Social Institutions: Entering the Marketplace with Giving Hands? 215
26. The Market for Medical Ethics 230
27. The Role of Nonprofits in Health Care 243
28. Arrow on Trust 259
29. From Trust to Political Power: Interest Groups, Public Choice, and Health Care 272
30. Regulating Health Care: From Self- Regulation to Self-Regulation? 290
31. The Lawyerization of Medicine 302
32. PART V Response by Professor Arrow
33. Reflections on the Reflections 321
34. Contributors 327
35. Index 335