The corporate transformation of health care can the public interest still be served ?
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 th...
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| Language: | English |
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New York
Springer Pub. Co.
2004
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Add Tag | Summary: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 306 pages illustrations 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780826124661 0826124666 |
Health policy crisis and reform in the U.S. health care delivery system