Sloan, Frank A. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1141-1174). 2000
of ownership change that occurred. As competition among hospitals increases, differences in behavior among hospitals with … different ownership forms should narrow. Privately owned hospitals in the U.S. were more alike than different. Private not …-for-profit hospitals will have less latitude than previously to produce outputs they deem to be socially worthy. The chapter ends with the …