| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Growth of investor-owned corporate health care -- Hospitals and nursing home chains -- Health maintenance organizations (HMOS) -- Health insurance industry -- Pharmaceutical industry -- Medically-related industries -- Impacts of corporate practices on the health care system -- Compromising the integrity of research -- Disinformation and media control -- Lobbying of government -- Co-opting the regulators -- Privatization vs. public utility model of health care -- Politics and options for health care reform -- An approach to reform |
| Summary |
Annotation The author explores how the corporate transformation of hospitals, HMOs, and the insurance and pharmaceutical industries has resulted in reduction in services, dangerous cost cutting, poor regulation, and corrupt research. He sheds light on the political lobbying and media manipulation that keeps the present system in place. Exposing the shortcomings of reform proposals that do little to alter the status quo, he makes a case for a workable single-payer system. This is an essential read for today's practitioners, policy makers, healthcare analysts and providers, and all those concerned with the precarious state of America's under- and uninsured |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Medical corporations -- United States
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Medical economics -- United States
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Multihospital systems -- United States
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Health maintenance organizations.
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Public health -- United States.
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Delivery of Health Care -- economics
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Health Facilities, Proprietary -- trends
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Health Care Reform -- organization & administration
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Managed Care Programs -- economics
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Ownership -- economics
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Quality of Health Care
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Health Maintenance Organizations
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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Health maintenance organizations
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Medical corporations
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Medical economics
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Multihospital systems
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Public health
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Gesundheitswesen
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Reform
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Gezondheidszorg.
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Voorzieningen.
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Economische aspecten.
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826124678 |
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0826124674 |
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