Max wrote: >The problem remains, however, that under a non-profit >system, public agencies, non-profit organizations, and >health care providers of various sorts could still >have incentives to over- or mis-prescribe, since >their compensation or general well-being is likely >to have something to do with their volume, and/or >the extent to which they employ expensive equipment. > >Which again points up the superficiality or limited >import of ownership per se in how economic stuff happens. what about the recent study (reported in the LAT) that indicates that not-for-profit HMOs do a much better job than for-profit ones? (one down, one to go.) Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
