Improving healthcare a dose of competition : a report by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice (July, 2004), with various supplementary materials

• Corporate Authors: United States Federal Trade Commission, United States Dept. of Justice
• Other Authors: Hyman, David (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 2005
• Series: Developments in health economics and public policy
• Subjects: Delivery of Health Care > economics > United States; Delivery of Health Care > legislation & jurisprudence > United States; Economic Competition > legislation & jurisprudence > United States; Health Care Reform > economics > United States
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• Physical Description: xi, 430 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 9780387257518; 0387257519; 9780387257525; 0387257527

Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition systematically examines the American health care system from a competition-oriented perspective. The volume surveys the performance of each major sector of the health care system, and identifies impediments to more effective competition. Improving Healthcare examines such issues as competition v. regulation, public and private sector approaches to health care financing, cross-subsidies, licensure, provider market concentration, financial and clinical integration, payment for performance, quality, pharmacy benefit managers, direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals, certificates of need, mandates, unionization, the significance of organizational status (nonprofit v. for-profit), and the role of antitrust and consumer protection in health care. It offers concrete recommendations to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of the American health care marketplace