The Healthcare Market Cannot Heal Itself: Notes on Health, Markets, and Power

The Healthcare Market Cannot Heal Itself: Notes on Health, Markets, and Power

Healthcare's failures are not accidents of policy or lapses of political will. They are the predictable output of a political economy designed largely by interested parties to stay broken.

In 1963, Kenneth Arrow published what remains one of the most important papers ever written about healthcare markets. Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care, which appeared in the Amer… [+17720 chars]