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Roadblocks to Reform: Beyond the Usual Suspects

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  • Grignon Michel

    (Department of Economics, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University)

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Real reforms attempt to change how health care is financed and how it is rationed. Three main explanations have been offered for why such reforms are so difficult: institutional gridlock, path dependency and societal preferences. The latter posits that choices made regarding the health care system in a given country reflect the broader societal set of values in that country and that, as a result, public resistance to real reform may more accurately reflect citizensÕ personal convictions, self-interest or even active social choices. ÒConscientious objectorsÓ may do more to derail reform than previously recognized.

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  • Grignon Michel, 2012. "Roadblocks to Reform: Beyond the Usual Suspects," Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis Working Paper Series 2012-01, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA), McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
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