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Hospital Behavior in a Competitive Market

Hospital Behavior in a Competitive Market Stuart H. Altman, Charles Brecher, Mary G. Henderson, and Kenneth E. Thorpe, eds. ,Competition and Compassion:ConflictingRolesfor Public Hospitals (Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press, 1989), 221 pp., $30.00. f H. E. Frech 111, ed., Health Care in America: The Political Economy o Hospitals and Health Insurance (San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1988), 401 pp., $34.95 cloth, $13.95 paper. J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth, Controversy about American Hospitals: Funding, Ownership, and Performance (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1987), 160 pp., $27.25 cloth, $13.50 paper. Frank A. Sloan, James E Blumstein, and James M. Pemn, eds., Cost, Quality, and Access in Health Care: New Roles for Health Planning in a Competitive Environment (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988), 293 pp., $32.95. From disparate beginnings, voluntary, public, and for-profit hospitals facing the same competitive challenges are behaving more and more alike. Increased fiscal concerns have prompted hospitals of all types to behave in a more economically efficient manner. Some researchers applaud this development, while others fear that hospitals have departed from their original mission. How well hospitals adapt to a more competitive environment could affect a number of important policy objectives, including access for the poor, public health http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Duke University Press

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Copyright 1990 by Duke University Press
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0361-6878
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Stuart H. Altman, Charles Brecher, Mary G. Henderson, and Kenneth E. Thorpe, eds. ,Competition and Compassion:ConflictingRolesfor Public Hospitals (Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press, 1989), 221 pp., $30.00. f H. E. Frech 111, ed., Health Care in America: The Political Economy o Hospitals and Health Insurance (San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1988), 401 pp., $34.95 cloth, $13.95 paper. J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth, Controversy about American Hospitals: Funding, Ownership, and Performance (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1987), 160 pp., $27.25 cloth, $13.50 paper. Frank A. Sloan, James E Blumstein, and James M. Pemn, eds., Cost, Quality, and Access in Health Care: New Roles for Health Planning in a Competitive Environment (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988), 293 pp., $32.95. From disparate beginnings, voluntary, public, and for-profit hospitals facing the same competitive challenges are behaving more and more alike. Increased fiscal concerns have prompted hospitals of all types to behave in a more economically efficient manner. Some researchers applaud this development, while others fear that hospitals have departed from their original mission. How well hospitals adapt to a more competitive environment could affect a number of important policy objectives, including access for the poor, public health

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law – Duke University Press

Published: Sep 1, 1990

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