Family Medical Costs and Voluntary Health Insurance: A Nationwide Survey

The Economics of Health and Health Care

“…Yet he focused mostly on statistical issues in his research 5 , referring to medical professionals amidst other examples of independent professionals, and so one could hardly consider that a discipline of Health Economics was being defined, as an applied branch of economics per se, concerned with issues related to scarcity in the allocation of health and health care. The same reasoning is true for such other economists, who since then did refer to Health market intervenients and institutions (pretty much as they would refer to any other sector), such as Anderson and Feldman (1956), Faulkner (1960), Dickerson (1963) and Lees and Cooper (1963), amongst others who addressed issues concerning the medical profession or health insurance.…”