Cost containment and the backdraft of competition policies.

摘要: This article offers an explanation of why governments and other purchasers found competition policies attractive, it summarizes a set new case studies. Faced with economic slowdown the need to retrench social services, felt their legitimacy threatened sought approach that would legitimize controlling costs. Starting in 1980s, group pro-capitalist "moral entrepreneurs" launched international business movement focused on reducing waste governmental welfare services through privatization. Political leaders number developed industrialized countries enthusiastically embraced "managed competition" as way control costs health care make them more accountable. The dangers implementation extensive market failures are ever-present medicine, however, led most pull back. Most nations implemented experienced political backdraft protest from patients providers swept out office.