{"title":"The prisoner's dilemma: an obstacle to cooperation in health care markets.","authors":"N L McKay","doi":"10.1177/107755879405100204","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"common sight in the health press. The president of the American Hospital Association, for instance, urged hospitals to move into a &dquo;new era of cooperation&dquo; in order to meet community health needs.1 Unfortunately, cooperative efforts among hospitals may often fail, in spite of the potential gains from cooperation. The explanation for this conundrum lies in a model called the prisoner’s dilemma. The prisoner’s dilemma, which describes a situation in which deci-","PeriodicalId":79684,"journal":{"name":"Medical care review","volume":"51 2","pages":"179-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/107755879405100204","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medical care review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/107755879405100204","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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common sight in the health press. The president of the American Hospital Association, for instance, urged hospitals to move into a &dquo;new era of cooperation&dquo; in order to meet community health needs.1 Unfortunately, cooperative efforts among hospitals may often fail, in spite of the potential gains from cooperation. The explanation for this conundrum lies in a model called the prisoner’s dilemma. The prisoner’s dilemma, which describes a situation in which deci-