[PEN-L:9509] Re: Re: Shades of Summers

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Max wrote:
>The problem remains, however, that under a non-profit
>system, public agencies, non-profit organizations, and
>health care providers of various sorts could still
>have incentives to over- or mis-prescribe, since
>their compensation or general well-being is likely
>to have something to do with their volume, and/or
>the extent to which they employ expensive equipment.
>
>Which again points up the superficiality or limited
>import of ownership per se in how economic stuff happens.

what about the recent study (reported in the LAT) that indicates that
not-for-profit HMOs do a much better job than for-profit ones?

(one down, one to go.)

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html