The Health Care Market

Write a 6–8-page paper in which you:

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1. Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your
   state. Compare and contrast the major determinants of health care market
   power.
2. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your health care
   delivery system in your state, and compare the major factors that
   influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces
   determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and
   providers’ compensation.
3. Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects,
   respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of
   view—i.e., a physician and a health care facility—and from a patient’s
   point of view. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives
   available to providers in the delivery of health care services in your
   own state.
5. Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment
   system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan
   itself.