Book Review

Reform designed to foster more price competition in the nation's health-care marketplace continues to receive attention in Congress. The legislative focus is on controlling expense by restructuring the marketplace to make its providers, consumers, and payers more sensitive to cost. Most analyses of "consumer-choice" incentive-oriented initiatives have been theoretical in nature and have failed to take into account the many obstacles that woud inhibit their successful implementation. An exception is the examination of proposed changes that has resulted in this informative set of essays edited by Meyer for American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. These essays were written primarily . . .