managed competition meaning

• [Medicine]
  A strategy for purchasing health care in a manner which will obtain maximum value for the price for the purchasers of the health care and the recipients. The concept was developed primarily by Alain Enthoven of Stanford University and promulgated by the Jackson Hole Group. The strategy depends on sponsors for groups of the population to be insured. The sponsor,in some cases a health alliance,acts as an intermediary between the group and competing provider groups (accountable health plans). The competition is price-based among annual premiums for a defined,standardized benefit package. (From Slee and Slee,Health Care Reform Terms,1993)

• We certainly would never agree to a system of managed competition.
• Managed competition is going very well in the private sector.
• Earnhardt, being Earnhardt, did not much care for managed competition.
• The president has touted his plan as managed competition.
• Unfortunately, we did not get managed competition out of the White House.
• They call their group the Alliance for Managed Competition.
• Managed competition is beginning to bring better health care at lower prices to many Americans.
• Popular elements got lost in the multilayered rubric of managed competition and regional health alliances.
• But the current competition is substantially different from what was envisioned by the architects of managed competition.
• Reinhardt said, " and still use it to finance Clinton-style managed competition ."

• "managed competition" meaning in Chinese: 管理竞争
• "managed competition" meaning in Japanese: 管理競争