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The military government in Chile imposed laboratory-like conditions to restructure that nation's health care system into one with greater free-market competition. The vanguard of this restructuring was the private medical market where HMO-like plans known as ISAPREs (Institutos de Salud Previsional), spearheaded these efforts. This paper analyzes the evolution of this first decade of these widely...