es, however, should not be guided only by "idealistic concerns" or "capitalistic" ones as the authors note, but rather should respond to the communities it serves and treats. Control of healthcare systems often now lies in the hands of "private institutions" rather than public ones, and those private institutions often convert healthcare into a "system" that conflicts with other "inter-corporate" goals (Himmelstein & Woolhandler 14).
             Hancock (1999) suggests that before health policies are initiated certain questions must be asked including those that define the health policy and its benefits and those that ascertain whether the health policy will influence the healt
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