ABSTRACT
The field of comparative health policy has grown almost as exponentially as health expenditure itself. Once viewed as a very specific product of a particular cultural and institutional context, health policy has increasingly been placed under the lens of comparative political scientists (e.g., Marmor, Freeman, and Okma 2009; Saltman 2012; Marmor and Klein 2012; Greer and Costa-Font 2013). Much of this has been driven by the realisation that, while many countries increasingly face the same kinds of intransigent problems, some are better able to address these issues than others. The hope is that, by understanding how other states address these problems, we may be able to learn effective ways to solve or mitigate complex issues. The worry is that we may discover that, while the problems are common to us all, the solutions must be unique.
