The problem of monopoly power in federal health policy.
Federal programs to regulate health care providers appear to have contradictory objectives, indicating ambivalence toward group power in American political philosophy. The conflict between monopoly-creating monopoly-destroying strategies is demonstrated through three attempts to integrate professional power into a democratic political system.
D003709:Democracy; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control; D006077:Government Agencies; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States