TY - BOOK ID - 84541970 TI - U.S. Health Care Reform PY - 1993 SN - 1462348947 1455214191 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Actuarial Studies KW - Analysis of Health Care Markets KW - Expenditure KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Finance KW - Financial institutions KW - Financial Instruments KW - Health care reform KW - Health care spending KW - Health care KW - Health Policy KW - Health systems & services KW - Health KW - Health: Government Policy KW - Industries: Financial Services KW - Institutional Investors KW - Insurance & actuarial studies KW - Insurance Companies KW - Insurance companies KW - Insurance KW - Medical care KW - National Government Expenditures and Health KW - Non-bank Financial Institutions KW - Pension Funds KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Public Finance KW - Public Health KW - Regulation KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84541970 AB - High and rapidly rising health care costs in the United States and growing ranks of uninsured persons have brought health care reform to the top of the U.S. Administration’s policy agenda. This paper describes the health care financing system in the United States, highlights what are viewed as its most serious shortcomings, and explores possible reasons for high and rising medical care costs. After brief descriptions of alternative reform proposals, the paper discusses universal coverage under managed competition and its ability to deal with the equity and efficiency problems in the U.S. health care system. ER -