Competencia en el sector de la salud: énfasis en el caso colombiano

Abstract

"This article reviews the literature that deals with the competition features in the health care markets in a managed care competition set up. In a first part, we focus on information asymmetries which characterize the health insurance and the providers' markets. The second part tackles the industrial organization issues in the health care sector such as the monopolistic competition which characterize the physicians' market, the bilateral oligopoly shape by health insurers and health care providers' markets and, the two-sided market features of the health sector. This article provides policy recommendations for the Colombian health care system. More precisely, we suggest introducing some price competition in the health insurance market in order to make the competition much more effective. Moreover, a price competition would allow this managed care competition set up to ensure a better transmission of the efficiency gains generated by health insurers."