TY - JOUR
T1 - Voluntary purchasing pools
T2 - A market model for improving access, quality, and cost in health care
AU - Haddad, Kathleen M.
AU - Cassel, Christine K.
AU - Berenson, Robert A.
AU - Bertram, Philip D.
AU - Altus, Philip
AU - McLean, Angela
AU - Lavizzo-Mourey, Risa J.
AU - Fogarty, William M.
AU - Gullen, David J.
AU - Gary, Nancy E.
AU - Latos, Derrick L.
AU - Herbert-Carter, Janice
AU - Webster, James
AU - Honsiger, Richard
PY - 1996/5/1
Y1 - 1996/5/1
N2 - States and small businesses have been rapidly establishing voluntary health care purchasing pools during the past few years. Purchasing pools can decrease health care costs, improve access for some small businesses and individual persons, allow greater choice among health care plans, and provide continuity of care. Purchasing pools also help to even the balance of power in the health care marketplace, which has come increasingly under the control of huge proprietary managed care corporations. This position paper of the American College of Physicians discusses how a system of well-designed voluntary purchasing pools can help protect the integrity of health care in the emerging managed care marketplace.
AB - States and small businesses have been rapidly establishing voluntary health care purchasing pools during the past few years. Purchasing pools can decrease health care costs, improve access for some small businesses and individual persons, allow greater choice among health care plans, and provide continuity of care. Purchasing pools also help to even the balance of power in the health care marketplace, which has come increasingly under the control of huge proprietary managed care corporations. This position paper of the American College of Physicians discusses how a system of well-designed voluntary purchasing pools can help protect the integrity of health care in the emerging managed care marketplace.
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U2 - 10.7326/0003-4819-124-9-199605010-00011
DO - 10.7326/0003-4819-124-9-199605010-00011
M3 - Review article
C2 - 8610956
AN - SCOPUS:15844423628
SN - 0003-4819
VL - 124
SP - 845
EP - 853
JO - Annals of internal medicine
JF - Annals of internal medicine
IS - 9
ER -