Competition, Regulation, and Rationing in Health Care

This is a reprint. The attributes and conduct of the physician, hospital, insurance, and long-term care industries are examined.

Warren Greenberg, Ph.D. is a professor of health economics and health care sciences and a senior fellow with the Center for Health Policy Research at the George Washington University. He is also a scholar in residence at the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Mr. Greenberg’s research at AHCRQ focuses on the quality of care in horizontal and vertical consolidations of hospitals within an industrial organization context. He also examines the structure of vertical integration in health care. From 1971 until 1979, Mr. Greenberg was a staff economist with the Federal Trade Commission. He was a lead economist on many of the FTC’s activities in the health care industry and was responsible for economic analysis of antitrust litigation. Mr. Greenberg was a visiting associate professor of managerial economics at the University of Maryland and a visiting professor at Ben-Gurion University (Israel). He is the author of numerous articles on industrial organization economics and health care that have been published in the Journal of Law and Economics, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Health Services Research, and other leading journals

Other Beard Books by Warren Greenberg: The Health Care Marketplace Competition in the Health Care Sector