health care. The review considers several interlocking aspects of the current English choice policy: competition between …Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to …

Choice and competition reforms in healthcare often involve the idea of empowering patients through the mechanism of … patient choice reform in Swedish primary care in 2010. …

This paper explores the goals and implementation of reforms introducing choice of and competition among insurers … competition can enhance efficiency in health care administration and delivery only if people have free choice of insurer (consumer … straightforward to put in place the conditions under which health insurance competition can enhance efficiency. Policy makers should …

Individuals often recreate with others, but models of recreation-site choice (which ski area, climbing route, golf … course, or bike trail) ignore the social aspect—a trait they share with most choice models. Site-choice models seek to … explain site choice as a function of only the cost of visiting each site, the physical characteristics of the sites, income …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to …