Tag: healthcare crisis
Competition Based on Quality of Healthcare: Why Does Quality Rise in Free Markets and Decline with Government?
| Thursday August 23, 2012 at 8:05 PM PDT
Lack of quality competition is in part the result of certain characteristics of healthcare quality. What we call core quality is not a variable at all. As I discuss in my recent book Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, it is the result of other decisions made by the providers. Since the vagaries of medical...
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How Third-Party Payers Crush Entrepreneurs
| Monday August 13, 2012 at 3:51 PM PDT
In complex systems, there are always unmet needs and problems to be solved. The more dysfunctional the system, the more numerous are the unmet needs and the more severe are the problems. In other sectors, needs to be met and problems to be solved are the fertile ground from which entrepreneurs emerge. Where is...
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