Social institutions and economic decision making.
Perpetuating the present U.S. health care system, which spends more and more to produce about the same output, is irrational. Incentives that affect insurers and insureds, physicians, hospitals, and government are a necessity if a viable voluntary health care system is to survive.
D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D007348:Insurance, Health; D009042:Motivation; D014481:United States