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Why Must We Keep Discussing Strategic Purchasing and Managed Competition?; Comment on “Measuring Active Purchasing in Healthcare: Analysing Reallocations of Funds Between Providers to Evaluate Purchasing Systems Performance in the Netherlands”

Summary by ijhpm.com
Stadhouders and colleagues' new measure answers an important question: do strategic purchasing and managed competition redirect health care resources, and, if so, when, how, and to what? Applying it to the Netherlands, they find that they do not. This commentary first examines logical problems in arguments for strategic purchasing and managed competition, and then briefly reviews other evidence of their very limited success from, in particular, …
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ijhpm.com broke the news in on Monday, July 14, 2025.
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