Improving Health Care A Dose Of Competition A Report By The Federal Trade Commission And The Department Of Justice

Download or read book Improving Healthcare written by David Hyman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.