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This Research Topic includes research papers from two countries (United States and China)
with different health care systems. Several universal themes emerge across the papers: the …

Virtually all health care in the United States is delivered through markets, with a few small
exceptions for specific groups, such as the Veterans Administration. This means that the …

Exploring Physician Consolidation Through Multiple Lenses AHRQ CVE Webinar April 8,
2014 Page 1 Consolidation and Competition in US Health Care Martin Gaynor EJ Barone …

This paper addresses three issues. First, why did market competition emerge in the US
health care system? Second, once free of regulatory constraints, how is the structure of the …

The US health-care system in based on markets, but those markets do not perform as well
as they could or should. One of the major reasons for this is lack of competition. There has …

Decades of ineffective antitrust enforcement have left many US health care markets with
insufficient competition to control prices. Increasingly, hospitals have merged to form …

Drawing on observations from tracking changes in local health care markets over the past
ten years, this article critiques two Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice …

Policy makers and analysts have been voicing concerns about the increasing concentration
of health care providers and health insurers in markets nationwide, including the potential …

Healthcare has come a long way since Health Progress began 75 years ago. We can do
more for our patients today than at any time in the past. This is the great promise of our …