Comparative Health Policy and the New Right From Rhetoric to Reality [Paperback]

A compilation of essays which examine the response of the new Right to health policy issues. While economic circumstances dictate the pressures placed on policy-makers, it is argued that there is a gap between the rhetoric they espouse and the actions/initiatives taken.Liberalism in the Dirigiste state - a changing public/private mix in French medical care, Paul Godt; health policy and the Christian-liberal coalition in West Germany - the conflicts over the health insurance reform, 1987-1988, Douglas Webber; privatization from within - the National Health Service under Thatcher, Wendy Renade and Stuart C.Haywood; Nordic health policy in the 1980s, Richard B.Saltman; health care policy in Eastern Europe - regulatory conservativism under socialism?, William A.Welsh; heart disease in Israel - curative or preventive policy?, Yael Yishai; two streams of conservativism under the Reagan administration, William P.Brendon; health policy under conservative governments in Canada, Prenlal Manga and Geoffrey R.Weller; health policies in the Conservative transition to democracy in Brazil, Sonia Maria Fleury Teixeira; medical care security and the vitality of the private sector in Japan, William E.Steelicke; grains among the Chaff-Rhetoric and reality in comparative health policy, James W.Bjorkman.