Getting the emphasis right in health-care competition
     Linda Seebach
     Rocky Mountain News
     December 11, 2004

Competition generally lowers price or raises quality, and often both. Think computers, for example, or whatever electronic gizmo you're expecting to find under your tree this year.

But it doesn't seem to happen with health care. Yes, you can reasonably argue that the quality of care is improving in that there are many new medical technologies and drugs, but it's difficult to say the same about how fast a proven clinical result spreads into medical practice, or how likely you are to be injured as a result of a doctor's error.

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