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The industry can be categorized into three fund types - 'retail ' superannuation funds, 'not-for-profit ' superannuation funds and ' self-managed ' superannuation funds.
They find that not-for-profit funds did significantly better than for-profit funds over a seven-year period.
Twenty-eight homes (48 %) were private for-profit, 21 (36 %) were voluntary not-for-profit, and nine (16 %) were local-authority managed.
Creating new markets - public bodies being required to develop markets for particular services by prompting alternative service providers (for- profit and not-for-profit).
He is currently at work on a project comparing the business ethics of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals.
The system is to be managed by the municipality, and not only public sectors but also for-profit enterprises provide services.
State licensing, in conjunction with medical education reform, led to the demise of physician-owned for-profit medical schools and their replacement by not-for-profit and state-owned institutions.
One disturbing aspect of the present healthcare situation is the lack of opposition to investor-owned, for-profit healthcare corporations.
Some not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals formed joint ventures with group practices and individual physicians to operate facilities that provided ancillary services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Perhaps the for-profit, proprietary hospitals could make an argument for it.
This association represents not-for-profit organizations providing high-quality healthcare.
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