Non-price competition from the perspective of the excessive growth of medical costs.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 Non-price competition from the perspective of the excessive growth of medical costs Paper Keywords: non-price competition in health care costs the health care market Abstract: The rapid growth of medical costs has been widespread concern in the community, non-price competition from the perspective of this staff analysis of the cost of medical services, the reasons for rapid increase in the existence of a large number of “free” market in the patient’s medical services, non-price competition from a leading role, leading to health care providers will compete by expanding the scale, with doctors, etc., to attract patients, and consequently lead to rapidly rising health care costs. At present, China’s health care system faces many pressing problems, including excessive growth of medical costs is the most important aspects of one of the scholars in different fields to solve this issue for a number of different views and suggestions, many people think it is important One reason is that China’s medical market is a monopoly, lack of competition and, as health care providers, hospitals lack the motivation to control costs, according to economic theory, the more intense market competition, commodity prices will be lower. So health care market level of competition and health care costs (as in the medical market, patients often buy the service a collection of different services, the use of the expression as a consumer of medical expenses) whether the relationship between special? I have to make a study . First, the characteristics of the medical services market Health care market is different from the perfectly competitive market, has its own peculiarities, mainly in the following areas. First, the lack of consumer information and medical effects of uncertainty, consumers can choose whether to seek medical treatment and where to seek medical treatment, but “ product “option is very limited, the need for their choice of doctors