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  • Title: Managed cooperation, not competition: a proposal for implementing national health reform.
    Author: Coile RC.
    Journal: Front Health Serv Manage; 1994; 10(3):3-28; discussion 43-4. PubMed ID: 10132489.
    Abstract:
    National health reform should be implemented in a policy framework that encourages cooperation--not competition--to promote efficiency while extending universal coverage. "Managed cooperation" is defined here as a national health system built on collaborative efforts between purchasers, providers, consumers, and government through voluntary collective action, like the structural cooperation seen in the Japanese economy between government and the private sector. Six partnerships are encouraged: (1) government-industry, (2) purchaser-provider, (3) physician-hospital, (4) public-private data sharing, (5) consumer-provider, and (6) community health. Structural and legal barriers to cooperation, such as antitrust and malpractice reform, should be reduced or eliminated to encourage collaborative initiatives under national health reform.
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