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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Springer Pub. Co.
2004
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| 505 | 0 | # | |a Growth of investor-owned corporate health care -- Hospitals and nursing home chains -- Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) -- The health insurance industry -- The pharmaceutical industry -- Medically related industries -- Impact of corporate practices on the health care system -- Compromising the integrity of research -- Disinformation and media control -- Lobbying the government -- Co-opting the regulators -- Privatization vs. public utility model of health care -- Politics and options for health care reform -- An approach to reform. |
| 520 | # | # | |a 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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Health policy crisis and reform in the U.S. health care delivery system