01549cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF010169 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451931266 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. The U.S. Health Care Industry : Performance and Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1990. 1 online resource (38 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper describes how economic behavior in the market for health care in the United States is influenced by a range of impediments to the functioning of the price mechanism which impart an upward bias to health care costs and imply efficiency losses. The paper also considers how to reform the health care sector, with particular emphasis on finding a way of resolving the dilemma posed by the tradeoff between the risk spreading afforded by insurance and establishing appropriate incentives to restrain expenditures. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1990/001 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1990/001/001.1990.issue-001-en.xml IMF e-Library