Choices in Health Policy : An Agenda for the European Union

Governments have long been worried about the rising cost of health care.

Virtually all have taken steps to try and keep costs under control.

But it is by no means clear that the types of measures taken so far can solve the problem in the long run.

This book concentates on long term alternatives. It examines such questions as: is it posssible to ration health care, and if so on what basis?; are there more fundamental ways of keeping costs from rising?; what might the role of the European Union be in promoting health and supporting collective action in cost containment?