Government health insurance and privatization: an examination of the concept and of equity.
After almost a century of the evolution of welfare capitalism in the liberal-democratic countries, and the spread of government intervention in the financing and provision of health services, the debate is now whether or not government can, or should, be as all-encompassing as it has clearly become. What is emerging with greater force is a pattern of private insurance and private provision, though its future is not easy to predict. What is clear, however, is that a modified version of a politically acceptable concept of equity will have to be formulated.
D005060:Europe; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000639:trends*; D009313:National Health Programs; D010067:Ownership; D011332:Privatization; D013222:State Medicine; D014481:United States