title: Can user charges make health care more efficient?
abstract: Sarah Thomson, Thomas Foubister, and Elias Mossialos explain why charging patients for health services we want them to use makes little economic sense.
authors: LSE Health, London WC2A 2AE. s.thomson@lse.ac.uk
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Thomson
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Foubister
authors: Elias
authors: E
authors: Mossialos
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005251:Fees, Medical; D005602:France; D005858:Germany; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics; D011306:Prescription Fees; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States