Privatization of hospitals: meeting divergent interests.

摘要: The United States, Germany, and the Kingdom are experiencing a trend toward privatization of hospitals--most frequently involving poorly positioned facilities that need: additional capital for replacement plant equipment; improved management systems to reduce number their nondirect patient care employees; an aggressive physician recruitment effort. A these institutions might have been otherwise shut down, resulting in loss good paying jobs; however, closures would reduced nation's total health expenditures. acquisition States Germany by investor-owned hospital corporations major teaching suggests for-profits become integral part country's delivery system. Privatization now even occurs within egalitarian British National Health Service with availability private medical insurance, hospitals, beds public hospitals being managed groups. Being acquired for-profit is often means secure needed politically less fractious than closing down marginally government-sponsored or not-for-profit facility.