Proposal for a mutual insurance pool for transplant organs

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AUTHOR ABSTRACT: Over the past decade there have been numerous proposals to use market system incentives to attenuate the persistent shortage of transplantable human organs. While shortages have grown, opposition to market-based solutions has remained adamant. Much of the opposition has focused on monetary incentives. This article explores an alternative - a mutual insurance pool to increase the supply of organs. In the process, criticisms of earlier proposals (specifically the future delivery scheme) are addressed, the operation of an insurance pool is described, and problems associated with insurance markets are identified and addressed. The article concludes that an insurance pool could overcome public and political resistance to more explicit market-based solutions.

Management, Innovations, Health insurance, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation

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Dialogue or monologue? The limits to lessons that can be learned

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Three books explore whether Canada's single-payer health insurance system can serve as a model for the US. They are "Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience" by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, and Claudia Fegan; "How to Choose? A Comparison of the U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems" by Robert Chernomas and Ardeshir Sepehri; and "Health Care: A Community Concern" by Anne Crichton, Ann Robertson, Christine Gordon, and Wendy Farrant.

Canada, Books, Book Review, Book reviews, Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience (Book), How to Choose? A Comparison of the U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems (Book), Health Care: A Community Concern (Book), Armstrong, Pat, Armstrong, Hugh, Chernomas, Robert, Sepehri, Ardeshir, Crichton, Anne, Robertson, Ann, Gordon, Christine, Farrant, Wendy

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General equilibrium and marketability in the health care industry

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Nonmarketability in the health care industry and how nonmarket institutions fill the gaps for existing markets is discussed. Such institutions have encouraged the development of medical technology and an associated health care cost escalation. An expansion of markets to deal with the issues of excessive utilization and pricing has occurred.

Health care industry, Marketing

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