Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring) 1972
Weiss, Jeffrey, H., and Lynda Brodsky. 1972. "An Essay on the National Financing of Health Care." Journal of Human Resources 7(2):139-151.
Proposed plans for the national financing of health care seek to eliminate the problems of a maldistribution of health services and resources, an inefficient medical care delivery system, rapidly rising costs and prices, and inadequate catastrophic health insurance. Because these objectives cannot be advanced simultaneously, one must decide on an ordering of objectives. After priorities are established, many issues such as eligibility requirements, benefits covered, reimbursement rules, financing mechanisms, and administration remain to be decided. Senator Kennedy's Health Security program is used to illustrate the trade-off effects of the provisions of one plan against the objectives of national health insurance.
The authors are, respectively, Deputy Administrator for Program Planning, Analysis, and Budgeting, and a staff economist of the Program Analysis staff of the Health Services Administration, the City of New York. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Health Services Administration.
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