No Benefit: Crisis in America's Health Insurance Industry

ISBN-13: 9780367003708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 169 str.

Lawrence D. Weiss

Opis

The private health insurance industry is unable to provide nearly 40 million Americans with basic health care. Relying on data from a wide range of publications about this secretive industry, Lawrence D. Weiss investigates the causes of the industry's problems and analyzes the social effects of the growing crisis. The causes include excessive overhead costs, widespread inefficiency, and exemptions from antimonopoly regulations; the social effects include small businesses' inabilities to provide adequate coverage for their employees, the reluctance of many carriers to insure certain social groups, and the disproportionate burden on minorities. Addressing these dilemmas, Lawrence D. Weiss offers a timely and important analysis of the health insurance crisis in America.

Spis treści

preface -- Placing the Social Fact of Private Health Insurance in Perspective -- Historical Development and Current Profile of the Commercial Health Insurance Industry -- Creating the Uninsured -- Employer Cost-Cutting Strategies -- Fraud and Deception -- Price Fixing and Conspiracy -- Insolvencies: Insurance Companies That Cannot Pay Claims -- The Inefficient Private Sector -- A Political Question: Accommodation, Compromise, or Struggle? -- Summary and Conclusions