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Fads, Fallacies And Foolishness in Medical Care Management And Policy by T. R. Marmor Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Number of Pages: 172 ISBN: 9812566783

Book Summary: This collection of articles takes up a key set of what the author regards as particularly misleading fads and fashions developments that produce a startling degree of foolishness in contemporary discussions of how to organize, deliver, finance, pay for and regulate medical care services in modern industrial democracies. The policy fads addressed include the celebration of explicit rationing as a major cost control instrument, the belief in a "basic package" of health insurance benefits to constrain costs, the faith that contemporary cross-national research can deliver a large number of transferable models, and the notion that broadening the definition of what is meant by health will constitute some sort of useful advance in practice.

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