Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System

ISBN-13: 9781107622876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 372 str.

Christy Ford Chapin

Opis

This book provides an in-depth evaluation of the US health care system's development in the twentieth century.

Recenzje

'There is a lot to like about the book; Chapin has done extensive research and relies on both primary and secondary sources as she provides evidence for her claims.' Melissa A. Thomasson, EH.Net

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Background: physicians choose the insurance company model, late nineteenth century to 1940s; 2. Federal reform politics: implanting the insurance company model, 1945–60; 3. Sclerotic institution: the declining power of organized physicians and the AMA; 4. Organized for profit: the hidden influence of insurance companies and the HIAA; 5. The conflicted construction of Blue Shield: caught between Blue Cross and the AMA; 6. Corporate health care: from cost controls to medical decision making; 7. The politics of Medicare, 1957–65; 8. Epilogue: the limits of 'comprehensive' reform, 1965–2010.