Haas-Wilson D, Gaynor M
Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA.
Health Serv Res. 1998 Dec;33(5 Pt 2):1403-19.
To discuss the implications of the rapid transformation of the healthcare financing and delivery system for competition, social welfare, and antitrust policy.
Horizontal and vertical consolidations can enhance efficiency but can also be anticompetitive in markets characterized by entry barriers.
Active enforcement of the antitrust laws is essential to ensure that competition in healthcare markets will lead to procompetitive, rather than anticompetitive effects. However, healthcare antitrust enforcement policy must be flexible enough to allow efficient new forms of organization and practice to emerge.
探讨医疗保健融资与服务体系的快速转变对竞争、社会福利及反垄断政策的影响。
横向和纵向合并可提高效率,但在存在进入壁垒的市场中也可能具有反竞争性。
积极执行反垄断法对于确保医疗保健市场的竞争产生促进竞争而非反竞争的效果至关重要。然而,医疗保健反垄断执法政策必须足够灵活,以允许高效的新组织形式和业务实践出现。