Résumé :
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If global budgets consistently reduce health care expenditures by cutting inefficiency and economic rents (i.E. By lowering the relative price of services), they appeal as a public policy tool is clear. This paper shows the french inpatient global budget policy, implemented in 1984,was successful in slowing expendirure growth. It did so, however, by reducing the volumes of services ; the relative price of these services remained constant. Compared with previous research, these findings suggest the effect of global budgets depends on the method of implementing the policy and the health care infrastructure on which the expenditure policy is imposed. (Résumé d'auteur).
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