Competitive Managed Care: The Emerging Health Care System - Tapa dura

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JOHN D. WILKERSON Kelly J. Devers, and Ruth S. Given collaborated on this book while they were Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in the Health Policy Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley. John D. Wilkerson is assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle. Kelly J. Devers is an expert appointee at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Center for Organization and Delivery. Ruth S. Given is director of the Department of Health Care Policy at the California Medical Association.

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In this timely book, a distinguished group of sixteen health care experts, including physicians, political scientists, sociologists, and economists, identify and assess the challenges and opportunities raised by America's emerging competitive health care system. As the authors explain, health care markets have characteristics that do not conform to competitive conditions. Freely operating health care markets will not produce and allocate health care services efficiently, and they will not provide the distribution of services that Americans have historically favored.

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As the U.S. health care system continues to shift to an environment in which managed care organizations are intensely price competitive, what are the consequences for private and public purchasers, health care providers, and the consumer? In this timely book, a distinguished group of sixteen health care experts, including physicians, political scientists, sociologists, and economists, identify and assess the challenges and opportunities raised by America's emerging competitive health care system. As the authors explain, health care markets have characteristics that do not conform to competitive conditions. Freely operating health care markets will not produce and allocate health care services efficiently, and they will not provide the distribution of services that Americans have historically favored.By offering thoughtful commentary on the major trAnds in health care, the book provides a much needed resource for health care providers, managers, and administrators as well as government policymakers. This compelling book

• Examines the evidence for greater efficiency of managed forms of care.
• Describes the role that employers and purchasing cooperatives are playing in promoting competition among health plans to lower premium costs.
• Assesses the implications of these changes for practitioners and educators in different health professions, including nursing, medicine, allied health, and public health.
• Investigates how increased price competition among managed care organizations is affecting the relationship between providers and their patients.
• Identifies the appropriate roles and responsibilities of governments in the emerging health care market.