• Title of article

    A New Synthesis in Search of Synthesizing Agents; Comment on “A New Synthesis”

  • Author/Authors

    Grignon، Michel نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی 0 سال 2014
  • Pages
    2
  • From page
    143
  • To page
    144
  • Abstract
    In a recent editorial in this journal Pierre-Gerlier Forest foretells a coming revolution in health policy based on the synthesis of four conceptual innovations and one technological breakthrough. As much as I agree with the intellectual story told in this editorial I present a more skeptical view of the effect of paradigm shifts on healthcare systems on the ground. I argue that ideas triumph when times are ripe and times are ripe in health policy when payers and providers can find a compromise between the need to value what providers do and their professional autonomy. I also argue that autonomy is a product of the market: patients value autonomy and prefer doctors to insurers.
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Health Policy and Management(IJHPM)
  • Serial Year
    2014
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Health Policy and Management(IJHPM)
  • Record number

    1175239