Regulated Competition in Healthcare: Theory & Practice

In this module you will be introduced to the teachers involved in this MOOC and you will get an overview of the topics covered by this MOOC. Moreover, you will be asked to briefly introduce yourself.

In this module you will learn why government intervention in health care is necessary and how governments have intervened in the past century. You will learn that in high income countries three waves of government intervention in health care can be distinguished.

In this module you will learn that, particularly in health care, markets and governments are both far from perfect. The key challenge for market-based health system reform is therefore: how to navigate between market failure and government failure?

In this module you will learn about the model of regulated competition in healthcare systems. More specifically, you will learn what this model looks like and how it can help to simultaneously achieve affordability and efficiency.

This module will introduce you to ten specific preconditions for achieving efficiency and affordability in competitive healthcare markets. For each precondition, you will learn what the consequences could be if this precondition is not fulfilled.

In this module you will learn about typical forms of risk selection and their welfare effects. Moreover, you will learn about tools for the regulator to mitigate selection problems.

In this module the focus is on effective competition regulation as an important precondition for achieving efficiency in competitive healthcare markets. You will learn about three key issues regarding competition regulation in healthcare.

This module focuses on provider payment systems, and specifically on their design. You will learn about what drives provider payment reform, provider payment incentives, and value-based payment methods.

In this final module we summarize the primary takeaways from this MOOC and say goodbye.