How do regulatory and allocative policies shape healthcare in America.

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Health policies may be used as regulatory tools in that they call on government to prescribe and control the behavior of a particular target group by monitoring the group and posing sanctions if it fails to comply. Examples of regulatory policies are federally funded peer review organizations (PROs).

Health policies may be used as allocative tools in that they involve the direct provision of income, services, or goods to groups of individuals who usually reap benefits in receiving them. Examples of allocative policies include subsidies to providers to deliver care to specific groups (the elderly, the poor, or veterans), the construction of facilities (hospitals and the Hill-Burton program), the development of personnel (medical education for those who participate in the National Health Service Corps), the initiation of certain institutional forms (health maintenance organizations), and the production and dissemination of knowledge (the basic medical research of the National Institutes of Health, the research on health systems prepared by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality).

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