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This association represents not-for-profit organizations providing high-quality healthcare.
Perhaps the for-profit, proprietary hospitals could make an argument for it.
Developing and transition countries, on the other hand, could be prevented from establishing universal pension systems or subsidising the growth of the not-for-profit sector.
However, even in the absence of for-profit firms, physicians encounter such conflicts of interest when they engage in private practice because they perform entrepreneurial roles.
The role of the public sector is confined to assessment and the contracting out of service provision to competing non-profit and for-profit home care providers.
The management and administration of the health insurance is organized into not-for-profit, decentralized insurance companies, so-called "mutualities," and one public sickness fund.
Some not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals formed joint ventures with group practices and individual physicians to operate facilities that provided ancillary services.
One disturbing aspect of the present healthcare situation is the lack of opposition to investor-owned, for-profit healthcare corporations.
