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Public health care with waiting time : the role of supplementary private health care
Hoel, Michael; Sæther, Erik Magnus - 2001
We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Privatehealth care without waiting time is an option for the patients in the publichealth queue. We show that although patients with low waiting costs...
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On the Efficiency of Public, Welfare and Private Hospitals in Germany Over Time - A Sectoral DEA-Study
Helmig, Bernd; Lapsley, Irvine - 2007
This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data...
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Chapter 21 Not-for-profit ownership and hospital behavior
Sloan, Frank A. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1141-1174). 2000
The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...
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Waiting Time and Public Health Care : A Comment to 'Public Health Care with Waiting Time: The Role of Supplementary Private Health Care'
Fossati, Amedeo; Levaggi, Rosella - 2010
In a recent article which appeared in this journal, Hoel and Saeter propose a model showing that welfare may be improved by introducing delay in public health care. In this note we argue that their model may be used as starting point because of their stringent assumptions. We suggest that the...
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Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in the Case of Healthcare Establishments in Bulgaria
Nedelchev, Miroslav - 2018
The purpose of report is to review the situation of state ownership and its management. The guidelines for corporate governance of state-owned enterprises of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2015, are used as the basis for good practices. The review includes 178...
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Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises : The Case of Healthcare Establishments in Bulgaria
Nedelchev, Miroslav - 2019
The aim of the survey is to present the current situation of state ownership and its governance in Bulgaria. As a basis for good practices, the guidelines for corporate governance of state-owned enterprises by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (2015) are used. The survey...
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Value Creation in Public Enterprises : An Empirical Analysis of Coordinated Organizational Changes in the Va Hospital System
Thibodeau, Nicole; Evans, John; Nagarajan, Nandu J.; … - 2006
As part of a federal government initiative to increase efficiency and quality, in 1996 the United States' VHA (Veterans Health Administration) radically restructured its organizational design and management processes. This study uses 1992-1998 clinical, workload and financial data to examine the...
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Health Care Capital Financing Agencies : The Intergovernmental Roles of Quasi-Government Authorities and the Impact on the Cost of Capital
Gershberg, Alec Ian; Grossman, Michael; Goldman, Fred - 1999
issues, primarily to finance capital projects for education, electric power, transportation, health care, housing and other …-public authorities in capital finance, their impacts have not been studied systematically. We first describe the issuers of tax … concentrated issuers have a lower cost of capital than those with a more concentrated market, including state-level finance …
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Den Staat an die Kette legen : gegen die Aushöhlung des Wettbewerbs durch den Staat
Möschel, Wernhard - 1995
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Public policy towards cross subsidy
Heald, David - In: Annals of public and cooperative economics 68 (1997) 4, pp. 591-623
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