The Managers' Coup d'Etat in Health Care Appears Complete - a Study of Top Health Care "Influencers"

Introduction: the Managers' Coup d'Etat

As we wrote in 2006... in 1988, Alain Enthoven, an original member and driving force of the
Jackson Hole group, published a short manifesto about "managed
competition." (Entoven AC. Theory and Practice of Managed Competition in
Health Care Finance. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1988.) This is now not
easy to find (but see Amazon here).

In this volume,

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