Managed care and monopoly power : the antitrust challenge /
Author / Creator: | Haas-Wilson, Deborah. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2003. |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11197010 |
Summary: | As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals, as the health care sector undergoes reorganization and consolidation. There are two tools to limit the growth of monopoly power: government regulation and antitrust policy. In this timely book, Deborah Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of the antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-231) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9780674038110 0674038118 9780674010529 0674010523 |