title: How Would the Next President Ensure Competitiveness in the Health Care Marketplace?
authors.affiliation: Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, is K. T. Li Professor of International Health and Health Policy at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a practicing internist at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System. He received his doctor of medicine from Harvard Medical School and was trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his master's in public health from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr Jha's major research interests lie in improving the quality and costs of health care. His work has focused on 4 primary areas-public reporting, pay for performance, health information technology, and leadership-and the roles they play in fixing the US health care system.
authors.forename: Ashish K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Jha
mesh_terms: D060866:Accountable Care Organizations / Q000191:economics; D017046:Cost Savings; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D020443:Practice Valuation and Purchase; D014481:United States; D014485:United States Federal Trade Commission