摘要
医疗保健市场具有不同于其他商品市场的特点 ,并且是一个典型的不完全竞争市场 ,市场机制在配置卫生资源方面的作用是有限的 ,在这个市场上私人福利与社会福利的状况受着多种因素的影响 ,特别是当医疗保险介入时 ,情况更为复杂 ,因此难以用单一的经济指标来衡量。基于对医疗保健市场特殊性的考察 ,作者分别分析了有医疗保险介入和没有医疗保险介入两种条件下医疗保健市场的福利状况 ,从而得出结论———在无法达到“最优”的情况下 ,选择以“次优”为政策目标也许更为现实。
Medical care market,which was a typical incomplete competitive market in which market mechanism in collocating health resources was limited,had its own characteristics different from other merchandise markets.In the market,various factors influenced private welfare and social welfare,especially medical insurance intervening.Thus,it was hard to measure the welfare with single economic indicator.Investigating the particularity of medical care market,the author analyzed the welfare of medical care market under two kinds of condition respectively and concluded that selecting the better as policy goal was more realistic if the optimum could not be achieved.
