JAMA Forum: What we can learn from hospital competition in the UK

Austin Frakt

July 8, 2015

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is a nationalized health care system—meaning doctors are employed by the government. From that familiar fact, many conclude that the US—with its competitive, private market-based delivery system—has nothing to learn. That’s wrong. Go read my JAMA Forum post to find out why.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

JAMA Forum: What we can learn from hospital competition in the UK

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