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The effects of the 1989 White Paper, Working for Patients (DoH, 1989), on the private health care sector in Britain are likely to be marginal and distorting in terms of efficiency and equity. The purposes of this chapter are to examine the structure of the markets for private health insurance and private hospital care, to describe the White Paper proposals which will affect these private markets and to analyse how these proposals are likely to affect the finance and provision of private health care in the 1990s. Throughout, our concern will be with the private market for cold elective acute care (that is, nonemergency care, much of it surgical repair).
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Propper, C., Maynard, A. (1990). Whither the Private Health Care Sector?. In: Culyer, A.J., Maynard, A., Posnett, J. (eds) Competition in Health Care. Economic Issues in Health Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21052-7_3
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