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Book SynopsisIn this timely book, Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases to limit the growth of health care sector monopoly power. Focusing on the economic concepts necessary to the enforcement of antitrust laws in health care markets, she provides a useful roadmap for guiding the future of these markets.
Trade Review[Haas-Wilson] demonstrates an immense depth of scholarship in the law and economics… [T]his is an excellent book… Economists and laymen who care about health policy or health antitrust should read this book. -- H. E. Frech III * Journal of Economic Literature *
Haas-Wilson carefully examines the appropriate role for government intervention in the rapidly evolving health care markets. Her fundamental conclusion is that competitive health care markets yield generally positive outcomes and that government policy should rely on antitrust enforcement to create and preserve such competitive markets. -- E. Magenheim * Choice *
Antitrust is emerging as one of the hottest dimensions of health policy as America goes ever further down the road to market competition as our mechanism for controlling costs and motivating performance. Yet we lack any sustained treatment of the issues. This book will fill that need. It addresses an important set of issues at the confluence of health policy, economic theory, and antitrust law and policy. There is no other book like it. -- James C. Robinson, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Written by a well-known and articulate economist, this book gives an enlightening account of health care antitrust law and policy. Coverage of the economic and legal literature is outstanding and up-to-date. The author makes a convincing argument for a principled, economics-based health care antitrust policy. Everyone with an interest in health policy, health economics or antitrust should read this book. -- H. E. Frech III, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Transformation of the Health Care System 2. The Current Treatment: A Strong Dose of Competition 3. Antitrust Policy in Health Care Markets 4. Market Definition in Health Care Antitrust Cases Involving Consolidation 5. Entry Barriers in Health Care Markets 6. The Effects of Horizontal Consolidation among Hospitals, Physicians, or Insurers 7. The Effects of Vertical Consolidation in Health Care Markets Conclusion Notes Index of Organizations Subject Index
