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Specialty Hospitals

PROLOGUE

Specialty Hospitals: Issues To Consider

The problem of specialty hospitals recapitulates the issues outlined in the first section of this volume. The following three papers show in detail what increased price competition in the hospital sector looks like and what implications it has for the mission of community hospitals. These papers are meant to inform a specific policy debate that has been simmering on Capitol Hill for several years, but they deserve to be read in a larger context as well. The cardiac, orthopedic, and surgical hospitals examined in these studies represent just a part of a wider trend toward increasingly competitive and entrepreneurial provision . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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