The United States: breakthroughs and waste

Article Abstract:

US health care is both efficient and inefficient. In organization and development of new medical techniques the US leads the world. However, traditional US reliance on private insurance is creating growing dissatisfaction among Americans due to high costs and wide gaps in coverage. In addition, health expenditures are claiming an ever-larger proportion of US gross national product. Other countries can learn several lessons from the US experience including the danger of combining ineffective regulation with ineffective competition and of allowing income level to decide access to care.

Medical care

---

Tobacco litigation: good for the body but not for the body politic

Article Abstract:

Peter Jacobson and Kenneth Warner equate public health with that of individual US citizens, but ignore fairness issues such as the regressive nature of the tobacco tax and the windfall of legal fees won by plaintiffs' lawyers in the tobacco settlement. Jacobson and Warner point out that the tobacco litigation has implications for other dangerous products, but allowing the government to assume such a paternalistic attitude could itself be habit-forming. Assuming responsibility for ones own actions is just as important.

Product liability, Criticism and interpretation, Smoking, Products liability, Jacobson, Peter D., Warner, Kenneth E.

---

A simulation model of tobacco youth access policies

Article Abstract:

The authors researched the effectiveness of policies aimed at limiting tobacco access to youth in lowering their use of tobacco. Results indicate such policies have been effective in retail compliance but youth have turned to non-retail sources, so policies aimed at demand should be explored.

Retail industry, Retail trade, Supply and demand, Youth, Smokers

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: The second globalization: Three options for the nation state (includes related articles). Economic deterrence
• Abstracts: India and Pakistan's nuclear arms race: out of the closet but not in the street. Iraq's quest for the nuclear grail: what can we learn?
• Abstracts: Entrepreneurial bureaucrats and democratic accountability: the experience at the state level. Managing the state's personnel systems
• Abstracts: Standards, the environment and trade facilitation in the Western Hemisphere: negotiating in the FTAA. Rules of origin and the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation
• Abstracts: Dumping, antidumping and antitrust. The application of the GATT/WTO dispute resolution system to competition issues

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.