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Policy-makers in health care systems throughout the world are facing similar problems and their attempts to grapple with these problems are leading to a sharper definition of the universal policy issues and the alternative ways of dealing with them. The principal issues of health care in the 1980s seem to be cost-containment, best subsumed into the general problem of efficiency and distributional equity.
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Maynard, A. (1988). The Public and Private Regulation of Health Care Markets. In: Sass, HM., Massey, R.U. (eds) Health Care Systems. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7807-3_9
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