¿Quién teme al copago?

Synopsis of ¿Quién teme al copago?

«¿Quién teme al copago?» is the health economics essay by Jaume Puig-Junoy, published by Los Libros del Lince in paperback (284 pages, in Spanish).

Jaume Puig-Junoy analyses the copayment systems applied in public healthcare and pharmacy from the perspective of health economics, with a detailed review of their advantages and disadvantages against common clichés. He starts from the premise that public healthcare is financed through taxes and asks whether pharmaceutical and healthcare copayments are economically and socially justified.

First edition published in Barcelona in 2012. It is number 19 in the Sin fronteras collection.

For professionals and scholars of health economics, as well as for readers following the debate on the sustainability of public healthcare.