TY - JOUR
T1 - Competition in Providing Medical Care
AU - Crane, Thomas S.
AU - Mcclure, Walter
AU - Christianson, Jon B.
PY - 1980/4/3
Y1 - 1980/4/3
N2 - To the Editor: Christianson and McClure have presented new evidence from the Minneapolis–St. Paul area that a functional marketplace can be achieved through competing health-maintenance organizations (HMO's).1 This alternative to regulatory controls, espoused by Enthoven at a Federal Trade Commission conference in 19772 and subsequently in an article in the. Journal,3 has become an important national health-insurance proposal, the Consumer Choice Health Plan. That Congress has recently jumped on the procompetition bandwagon in health care is seen in the recent amendments to the National Health Planning Act, which require health-systems agencies to encourage competition in places where competitive forces. . .
AB - To the Editor: Christianson and McClure have presented new evidence from the Minneapolis–St. Paul area that a functional marketplace can be achieved through competing health-maintenance organizations (HMO's).1 This alternative to regulatory controls, espoused by Enthoven at a Federal Trade Commission conference in 19772 and subsequently in an article in the. Journal,3 has become an important national health-insurance proposal, the Consumer Choice Health Plan. That Congress has recently jumped on the procompetition bandwagon in health care is seen in the recent amendments to the National Health Planning Act, which require health-systems agencies to encourage competition in places where competitive forces. . .
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198004033021423
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198004033021423
M3 - Letter
C2 - 7354826
AN - SCOPUS:0019315742
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 302
SP - 815
EP - 816
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 14
ER -