Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics
Publication Date
2012
Publication Title
Law & Economics Working Papers
Abstract
This essay uses the recent controversy over President Obama's mandate that insurance companies provide generous birth control coverage to explore larger issues about the optimal locus of health care decision making. Mandates may be justified in some instances, but they sacrifice choice and local variation and perhaps lead to worse social outcomes. The key question for policy makers is whether market processes or rule by expert is more likely to strike the right balance of choice and mandate. Keywords: law and economics, federalism, health care policy, birth control.
Number
613
Recommended Citation
M. Todd Henderson, "Voice versus Exit in Health Care Policy" (Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 613, 2012).
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