Blue Cross, the largest insurer of hospital costs in most parts of the U.S., has a varying market share by area. This paper examines the factors affecting the market share of Blue Cross by state. The regression analysis finds that the Blue Cross discount has an important impact upon market...

The increasing potential for commercial applications in biotechnology has given rise to new legal and ethical questions with regard to ownership of human tissue. As the potential value of human cells and tissue has risen, so have donors' calls for a share in the profits. However, in a recent...

Most economists have suggested that the growing presence of insurance, including Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross and the commercial insurers, is largely responsible for the rapid rise of health care costs in the United States. It is the contention of this paper, however, that the insurance...

There have been a number of major changes in the health care market in the last decade. In this wide-ranging book, Warren Greenberg surveys the health care industry using the economics of industrial organizations approach. By doing so, the author provides the reader with an understanding of the...