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The article centralizes its claim on the idea of adopting competition in health care as the main solution to the current unreliable, inefficient and expensive American system. Despite the numerous solutions proposed and implemented on improving health care in the country, the care remains to be chaos. Other sectors in the economy manage to deliver on quality and efficiency through competition. Health care organizations have resulted in controlling competition by taking up market share and improving their bargaining power with suppliers and insurers.  Healthcare providers need to be rewarded for value delivered in Limited reimbursement-based incentives to put off the performance unrelated to hospital ranking that is characterized by less focus on delivering patient-centred value and loose penalties. Limited market-share incentives are also a barrier to improved market competition in the healthcare sector. Consumers have been mildly interested in the quality metric data generated during health care processes and have as a result had very little to bargain with in the improvement process (Dafny, Leemore, et al., 2017). Data collection and analysis of individual patients and procedures by health care providers are rarely under scrutiny. leaders have not managed to nurture high-performing teams and perfect the art of lean management especially in making data-driven strategic choices to improve efficiency.

There is however a shift in the health care sector environment towards improving market competition. Vast advancements in information technology and a change in health care leadership are providing more insight and causing a critical turning point. There is now an emergence of better incentives and standards for measuring health outcomes and widespread data sharing (Dafny, Leemore, et al., 2017). Medicare has for example prioritized delivering patient experience and has a mandatory data outcome disclosure. Today’s leaders in the sector are younger and with a greater value for teamwork, innovativeness, diversity and recognition of managerial skills. Work value-based payments in the health care sector encourage overutilization and inefficiency, standardised ways to pay for value in both public and private sectors should be developed and on a common payment structure. The Medicare and Medicaid government programs have been commended as change agents. Their adoption of mandatory bundled payment programs has promoted value-based models in health care.

Evaluation

The article offers insight into the effects of the mergers that have been most recently popularized by health care leaders. They have not managed to enhance any value to the system, especially in terms of price lowering and have as noted  scaled up the problems of the system without presenting any solutions. Health care is today understanding that consolidation is diminishing the sector’s potential to thrive in the long run and has managed to develop a new competitive marketplace. As an emerging space, it is up to of  healthcare participants to deflect and play their roles in transforming the healthcare sector.

Conclusion

Change in healthcare calls for a provision of a value-driven marketplace aimed at providing integrated, efficient and coordinated care. Fear of losing market share to the competition should therefore be squashed to create room for choice. With choice, winners and losers are distinguishable and therefore easier to push for improvement. healthcare providers have to be at the forefront of this change; to recognize and embrace the new value rewarding models and well as cooperate with other healthcare players in the development of new care delivery systems.

Reference

Dafny, Leemore, et al., (2017). “How to Bring Real Competition to the Health Care Industry.” Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2016/12/health-care-needs-real-competition.

https://thegmetalworks0.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/competition-in-the-health-care-system/

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