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Date: | 2005 |
Abstract: | A feature present in countries with a National Health Service is the co−existence of a públic and a private sector. Often, the public payer contracts with private providers while holding idle capacity. This is often seen as inefficiency from the management of public facilities. We present here a different rationale for the existence of such idle capacity: the public sector may opt to have idle capacity as a way to gain bargaining power vis−à−vis the private provider, under the assumption of a more efficient private than the public sector. |
Grants: | Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2001-SGR-00162 |
Note: | Altres ajuts: AcçãoIntegrada/E97/04 |
Note: | Altres ajuts: SAPIENS/37762/01 |
Note: | Altres ajuts: BEC2003-01132 |
Rights: | Tots els drets reservats. |
Language: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Subject: | Negociacions ; Models matemàtics ; Assistència sanitària ; Bargaining ; Public sector ; Private sector ; National Health Service ; Health care |
Published in: | Economics bulletin, Vol. 9 Núm. 5 (2005) , p. 1-8, ISSN 1545-2921 |
8 p, 121.7 KB |