Health Care Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the US Health Care Sector
研究发现美国高质量医院市场份额更高且增长更快，患者选择范围越大，绩效与配置的关系越强，表明医疗保健部门可能比通常认为的更受市场力量影响。
The conventional wisdom for the health care sector is that idiosyncratic features leave little scope for market forces to allocate consumers to higher performance producers. However, we find robust evidence across several different conditions and performance measures that higher quality hospitals have higher market shares and grow more over time. The relationship between performance and allocation is stronger among patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting that patient demand plays an important role in allocation. Our findings suggest that health care may have more in common with “traditional” sectors subject to market forces than often assumed.