Subject(s): Medical policy. -- Cost of Medical care -- Good health, invisible mind, inputs and outcomes, medical care, care beyond medicine, jurisdiction and legislation, individual, information asymmetry -- Practitioner, professional assessment, supplier induced demand, countervailing forces, public, social value, political economy, logic of insurance, risk and uncertainty, risk rating, moral hazard, combinations and permutations, insurance private and public, private health insurance, national health insurance, national health service, equity and equality, right to health, maximin, generosity and compassion, structural imperative -- Inequality and health : social distance, geographical location -- Narrowing gap, occupation, education, culture, income, inequality, equalizing medical care, cost of care, expenditure, social trends, medicine, cost containment, state, market and cost, internal market , liberalization