Provides an international, unifying perspective, based on the 'public choice' tradition, to explain how patient-citizens interact with their country's political

Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and

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President Clinton's health care reform proposals of 1993 represented the most far-reaching program of social engineering attempted in the United States since th