The corporate transformation of health care can the public interest still be served ?

• Main Author: Geyman, John 1931- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Pub. Co. 2004
• Subjects: Health Facilities, Proprietary > trends > United States; Delivery of Health Care > economics > United States; Quality of Health Care > United States; Ownership > economics > United States; Managed Care Programs > economics > United States; Health Care Reform > organization & administration > United States
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.