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Legislating regulation for the Philippine HMO industry

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  • Karl Kendrick T. Chua

    (World Bank)

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This paper examines the process of legislating regulation for the Philippine health maintenance organization (HMO) industry. It particularly looks at how interest groups compete with each other and attempt to influence legislation of the regulation law. We find that a substantial number of government agencies and private organizations, principally the Association of Health Maintenance Organizations of the Philippines Inc. (AHMOPI), lobbied for or influenced legislation. The result of lobbying, “The HMO Act of 2003”, appears to be a compromise settlement among the interest groups, with the association taking the biggest slice of the pie.

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  • Karl Kendrick T. Chua, 2006. "Legislating regulation for the Philippine HMO industry," Philippine Review of Economics, University of the Philippines School of Economics and Philippine Economic Society, vol. 43(2), pages 115-126, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:43:y:2006:i:2:p:115-126
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    Keywords

    regulation; HMO; capture;
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    JEL classification:

    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation

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