ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
Health Economics: Economics 132  Winter 2009
Colin Cameron  Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Calif. - Davis

You should read all relevant parts of the textbook (see Syllabus):
Thoma Getzen, Health Economics and Financing, 3rd ed., Wiley, 2007.

You should all read the readings provided in the course reader (see Basic References).

More journal any readings are available on the web through a UC-Davis IP address, not always with tables.
- Health Affairs articles from www.healthaffairs.org
- Journal of Health Economics from www.elsevier.com
- Health Economics articles through www.interscience.wiley.com
- New England Journal of Medicine from www.nejm.org
- American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives and other leading economics journals for articles more than five years old see www.jstor.org
- National Bureau of Economics Working Papers available from www.nber.org (under working papers select browse under JEL class and choose I1 Health)

The following are some useful optional references additional to those in the reader
A. Overview of U.S. Health Market
Iglehart, John K. (1999), "The American Health Care System - Expenditures", New England Journal of Medicine, January 7, 1999, Vol.340, No.1, pp. 70-76.

C. The Economics of Health Insurance.
Cutler, David. M. and Richard J. Zeckhauser (1999), "The Anatomy of Health Insurance", National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 7176. [Emphasizes economic theory of health insurance]
Arrow, Kenneth J. (1963), "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care", American Economic Review, Vol.53, pp. 941-973.  [The original health economics article]
Feldman, Roger and Bryan Dowd, "A New Estimate of the Welfare Loss of Excess Health Insurance", American Economic Review, Vol.81, pp.297-301. [Expands on the RAND study]

F. Managed Care (HMO's and PPO's) and Managed Competition
Miller, Robert H. and Harold S. Luft (2002), "HMO Plan Performance Update: An Analysis of the Literature, 1997-2001", Health Affairs, Vol.21 (4), pp.63-85. [Update of Miller and Luft (1997)]
Buchmueller, TC and Feldstein, PJ. (1996), "Consumers Sensitivity To Health Plan Premiums - Evidence From A Natural Experiment In California", Health Affairs, Spring 1996, Vol.15, No.1, pp.143-151.
Buchmueller, TC and Feldstein, PJ. (1997), "The Effect of Price on Switching Among Health Plans", Journal of Health Economics, April 1997, Vol.16, No.2, pp.231-247. [Expands on Buchmueller and Feldstein (1996)].

D. Users (Demand)
Grossman, Michael (1972), "On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health", Journal of Political Economy, Vol.80, pp.223-255. [The "Grossman" model]

H. Further Topics
"Health Care and Insurance," Economic Report of the President 2004, Chapter 10. Available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/ [Reviews many current issues in health economics].