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OPTIONS IN THE DESIGN OF COMPETITIVE‐BIDDING PROCESSES FOR INDIGENT MEDICAL CARE
Author(s) -
CHRISTIANSON JON B.,
SMITH KENNETH R.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1984.tb00797.x
Subject(s) - bidding , ambiguity , real time bidding , set (abstract data type) , ebidding , empirical research , microeconomics , business , economics , public economics , industrial organization , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , programming language
This paper discusses competitive‐bidding systems for indigent medical care. Theoretical and empirical research which applies to the specific characteristics of these systems is limited. In particular, it is not clear which set of bidding rules would result in the lowest program costs for the state. Effectively implementing competitive bidding is difficult, given the ambiguity of available research results, since such bidding creates the appearance that policymakers have relinquished budgetary control.