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This document (of 401 pages) comprises the proceedings of an OECD roundtable on competition and regulation issues in …
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specific interventions is to eliminate the negative consequences of free competition. However, the resulting benefits always … have to be offset by the costs of regulation. These costs consist first of direct costs due to the regulation itself, since … costs of regulation in the German pharmacy sector. It then describes the deregulation measures needed to avoid regulation …
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access to the public system (e.g., by reducing wait times), and improve quality in the public system (through competition …
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Canada’s universal health insurance system leads to the under-provision of disease prevention by consumers. This paper demonstrates that a public health education campaign designed to increase coverage of preventive treatment can easily have the opposite effect. Using a model of targeted...
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Ontario healthcare reforms have made headway in improving access to primary care by implementing the "capitation" model where doctors are paid mainly for a roster of patients rather than fee-for-service – but too many of patients are still using "outside" doctors, according to a report from...
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Although President Obama and the Democratic Congress were able to pass landmark health legislation, their efforts to reform health care ran into predictable political roadblocks. In a severe recession, taxing business and labor is obviously not helpful to economic recovery. Moreover, an array of...
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, competitive asymmetry, presuming that the competition among the companies is not equal and rivals do not consider each other at …
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