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The industrial organization of the health care industry has changed dramatically over the last decade, although the underlying economics of health care has remained the same. The industrial organization of health care is now dominated by the intervention of the health insuring organization or the managed care firm into the health care marketplace. The financing of health care services is increasingly performed by aggressive insuring organizations rather than by health insurers who passively pay the health care bill.
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Greenberg, W. (1998). Introduction to the Economics of Health Care. In: The Health Care Marketplace. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1668-1_1
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