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3:35 PM Wed Jan 20 47% m АА chegg.com + Module 1 Discu... Lab 1- Introduc... www.geol.wwu.... Alfred Wegener 2.1: Alfred Weg... Dynamics of He... x Chegg eReader Ask a new ques... Imperfect a Аа R ssentials of the U.S. Health Care Syften FIGURE 1.4 Death Rates Among Children 1-19 Years of Age, by OECD Country Data from the year 2006 or most recent year. Doing Better for Children. Chapter 2: Comparative Child Well-being across the OECD; p. 51 Imperfect Market Conditions Under national health care programs, patients can select their providers, but true economic market forces are virtually nonexistent. In the U.S., health care delivery is largely in private hands, but health care is only partially governed by free market forces. Hence, the system is a quasi- market or an imperfect market system. The following key characteristics of free markets help explain why the U.S. health care system is not a true free market. In a free market, many patients (buyers) and providers (sellers) act independently, and patients can choose providers based on price and quality of services. In reality, however, the payer is an MCO, Medicare, or Medicaid, not the patient. Prices are set by agencies outside the market 3:35 PM Wed Jan 20 47% m АА chegg.com + Module 1 Discu... Lab 1- Introduc... www.geol.wwu.... Alfred Wegener 2.1: Alfred Weg... Dynamics of He... x Chegg eReader Ask a new ques... Imperfect a Аа R ssentials of the U.S. Health Care Syften FIGURE 1.4 Death Rates Among Children 1-19 Years of Age, by OECD Country Data from the year 2006 or most recent year. Doing Better for Children. Chapter 2: Comparative Child Well-being across the OECD; p. 51 Imperfect Market Conditions Under national health care programs, patients can select their providers, but true economic market forces are virtually nonexistent. In the U.S., health care delivery is largely in private hands, but health care is only partially governed by free market forces. Hence, the system is a quasi- market or an imperfect market system. The following key characteristics of free markets help explain why the U.S. health care system is not a true free market. In a free market, many patients (buyers) and providers (sellers) act independently, and patients can choose providers based on price and quality of services. In reality, however, the payer is an MCO, Medicare, or Medicaid, not the patient. Prices are set by agencies outside the market
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Why is the US health care market referred to as us imperfect?
In medicine, people always disdain the work market due to the type of work they do. A
market means that it is an encounter controllable by supply and demand. In most of markets,
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