TY - JOUR ID - 3071 TI - Competition in Healthcare: Good, Bad or Ugly? JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Goddard, Maria AD - Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, UK Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 4 IS - 9 SP - 567 EP - 569 KW - Competition KW - Health System KW - Markets DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.144 N2 - The role of competition in healthcare is much debated. Despite a wealth of international experience in relation to competition, evidence is mixed and contested and the debate about the potential role for competition is often polarised. This paper considers briefly some of the reasons for this, focusing on what is meant by “competition in healthcare” and why it is more valuable to think about the circumstances in which competition is more and less likely to be a good tool to achieve benefits, rather than whether or not it is “good” or “bad,” per se. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3071.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3071_65c999cbdaf363038eb3fb742483e65d.pdf ER -