1 An FTC Staff Report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) vigorously promotes competition in the health care industry through enforcement, study, and advocacy. Competition in health care markets benefits consumers by helping to control costs and prices, improve quality of care, promote innovative products, services, and service delivery models, and expand access to health care services and goods. While state legislators and policymakers addressing health care issue...

provided a particular advantage to careful documentation and publication. As Garde25 noted: We lose so many opportunities in clinical areas because people do not take the time to write articles that could be major contributions to the literature. [By her writing], Alice Magaw really made a name for the nurse anesthetists. In 1936, Crile,26 who was hailed as one of the greatest surgeons in the United States, praised the nurse anesthetist movement. In these nursing professionals, he found a specia...

1 An FTC Staff Report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) vigorously promotes competition in the health care industry through enforcement, study, and advocacy. Competition in health care markets benefits consumers by helping to control costs and prices, improve quality of care, promote innovative products, services, and service delivery models, and expand access to health care services and goods. While state legislators and policymakers addressing health care issue...