The Healthcare Market
Research the current health care delivery structures—both private and public—within your state.
Create a 6-8 page paper in which you:
1. Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state. Compare and contrast the major determinants of healthcare market power.
2. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your healthcare 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 healthcare 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 healthcare 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.
6. Use at least five (5) current references.
Your assignment should follow these formatting requirements:
a. You must Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references should follow APA or school-specific format.
b. You must Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment. The cover page and the reference page are excluded in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes are:
a. Explain how selected economic principles apply to the health care market and the provision of health care services.
b. Analyze the factors that are influencing the demand and supply of health care services in the U.S.
c. Assess current economic trends that influence the cost, quality, and access to care.
d. With the Use of technology and information resources to research issues in health economics.
e. Write clearly and concisely about health economics using proper writing mechanics.