Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: THE RISE OF MANAGED CARE; CHAPTER 1. Marcus Welby Medicine; CHAPTER 2. The Origins of Managed Care; CHAPTER 3. The Government Steps In; CHAPTER 4. Managed Care Takes Over; CHAPTER 5. The Business of Health Care; Part TWO: THE MODERN HEALTH ECONOMY; CHAPTER 6. Merger Mania; CHAPTER 7. Quality; CHAPTER 8. Fulfilling the Promise of Managed Care; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles these and other key questions in the first major economic and historical investigation of the field. Focusing on the doctor-patient relationship, he begins with the era of the independently practicing physician--epitomized by Marcus Welby, the beloved father figure/doctor in the 1960s television
