Overview
- Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition is a report, jointly issued by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, which provides a comprehensive review of competition in the American health care marketplace.
- The report can be used as a reader supplement to a textbook or a resource for researchers and the general public.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy (HEPP, volume 9)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
David Hyman is Professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Illinois. He served as Special Counsel at the Federal Trade Commission for three years, during which he was project leader for the set of hearings that resulted in this book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Improving Healthcare
Book Subtitle: A Dose of Competition
Editors: David Hyman
Series Title: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b135898
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25751-8Published: 09 March 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9816-2Published: 22 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-25752-5Published: 21 April 2007
Series ISSN: 0927-4987
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 431
Topics: Economic Policy, Law and Economics, Medical Law, Health Informatics, Social Policy