Ch. 1. Growth of investor-owned corporate health care -- Ch. 2. Hospitals and nursing home chains -- Ch. 3. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) -- Ch. 4. The health insurance industry -- Ch. 5. The pharmaceutical industry -- Ch. 6. Medically related industries -- Ch. 7. Impact of corporate practices on the health care system -- Ch. 8. Compromising the integrity of research -- Ch. 9. Disinformation and media control -- Ch. 10. Lobbying the government -- Ch. 11. Co-opting the regulators -- Ch. 12. Privatization vs. the public utility model of health care -- Ch. 13. Politics and options for health care reform -- Ch. 14. An approach to reform -- App. 1. The "United States national health insurance act," H. R. 676 -- App. 2. Potential administrative savings by state, 2003, achievable with a single-payer national health insurance program
