{"product_id":"improving-healthcare-a-dose-of-competition-9780387257518","title":"Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Hyman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Economics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImproving 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\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eexamines 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45284418289815,"sku":"9780387257518","price":11017.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780387257518.webp?v=1769281109","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/improving-healthcare-a-dose-of-competition-9780387257518","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}