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Private medical insurance and the future of Irish health care / edited by Ray Kinsella and Ruairi O Healai.

Contributor(s): O Healai, Ruairi | Kinsella, Ray.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Oak Tree Press, 1999Description: 141 p. : ill. ; 30 cm + pbk.ISBN: 1860761429.Subject(s): Health maintenance organizations -- Finance -- Ireland | Insurance, Health -- Ireland | Medical care -- FinanceDDC classification: 368.382
Contents:
Opening address / Brian Cowen -- Australia's industry commission's report on private health insurance: key findings and policy recommendations / Gary Banks -- Competition and change in the Australian private health insurance marketplace / Russell Schneider -- The PMI white paper: the way forward / Gerry Harvey -- The service providers: the hospital consultants' perspective / Dr David F. Lillis -- The service providers: the general practitioners' perspective / Dr Michael Boland -- The service providers: Independent hospitals' perspective / Michael Heavey -- The service providers: psychiatric care and the Irish PMI market / Orla O'Neill -- The service providers: the case for radical reform / John Paul Crown -- The insurer's perspective - BUPA / Martin O'Rourke -- The insurer's perspective - VHI / Aidan Walsh -- The consumer perspective / William Fagan -- The dynamic of change in the Irish PMI market: an empirical study / Beatrice M. Doran -- Discussion / Professor Ray Kinsella.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 368.382 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00077565
Total holds: 0

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This critique of private medical insurance and its role in health care discusses key developments and changing pressures in market structure, competition, regulation and health care delivery. The book addresses these far-reaching changes and analyses the future of the Irish health care system.

Opening address / Brian Cowen -- Australia's industry commission's report on private health insurance: key findings and policy recommendations / Gary Banks -- Competition and change in the Australian private health insurance marketplace / Russell Schneider -- The PMI white paper: the way forward / Gerry Harvey -- The service providers: the hospital consultants' perspective / Dr David F. Lillis -- The service providers: the general practitioners' perspective / Dr Michael Boland -- The service providers: Independent hospitals' perspective / Michael Heavey -- The service providers: psychiatric care and the Irish PMI market / Orla O'Neill -- The service providers: the case for radical reform / John Paul Crown -- The insurer's perspective - BUPA / Martin O'Rourke -- The insurer's perspective - VHI / Aidan Walsh -- The consumer perspective / William Fagan -- The dynamic of change in the Irish PMI market: an empirical study / Beatrice M. Doran -- Discussion / Professor Ray Kinsella.