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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1997 Oct 1997

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1997

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1997 Apr 1997

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1997

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Night Landings On An Aircraft Carrier: Hospital Mergers And Antitrust Law, Thomas L. Greaney Jan 1997

Night Landings On An Aircraft Carrier: Hospital Mergers And Antitrust Law, Thomas L. Greaney

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Abstract: Analysis of the competitive effects of hospital mergers requires antitrust tribunals to make exceedingly fine-tuned appraisals of complex economic relationships. The law requires fact finding in a number of complex areas, e.g., defining product and geographic markets, predicting the possibility of that firms will engage in coordinated behavior; and assessing efficiencies flowing from the merger. Further complicating the process is the fact that these decisions require judgments regarding what the future may hold in an industry undergoing revolutionary change. Like pilots landing at night aboard an aircraft carrier, courts are aiming for a target that is small, shifting and …


Medical Discipline In The 21st Century: Can Purchasers Do It?, Frances H. Miller Jan 1997

Medical Discipline In The 21st Century: Can Purchasers Do It?, Frances H. Miller

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Millenia prompt reflection about change, both past and future. Tons of newsprint have already been devoted to documenting the astonishing developments in medicine during the past century, and to speculating about what breakthroughs to expect in the next one.1 Health economists generally accept that these changes, particularly advances in technology, have been the dominant factor propelling U.S. health care costs into the stratosphere over the past hundred years.' Analysts by the score have also examined the myriad ways in which this nation's health care delivery system has been (and must continue to be) transformed to cope with these expensive …