title: Health economists' views of health policy.
abstract: This article reports the views of a national survey of U.S. health economists on a series of questions ranging from mergers among health care providers to the profits of pharmaceutical manufacturers to fundamental health care reform. We find a high degree of agreement on issues of fact but considerable disagreement on issues that depend on values. Additional research may help to resolve some remaining disagreement about issues of fact but may do little to resolve disagreement over values. Results from this fall 2005 survey are compared with those from surveys conducted in 1989 and 1995.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, USA.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Morrisey
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cawley
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000191:economics; D004470:Economics, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000191:economics*; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000191:economics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States