Health Care Delivery Structure in Arizona Analysis
Write a paper in which you:
Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state. Compare and contrast the major
determinants of healthcare market power.
Analyze the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery system in your state, and
compare the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive
forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’
compensation.
Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the
provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point
of view. Provide a rationale for your response.
Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of
healthcare services in your own state.
Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or
the consumer-driven health plan itself.