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The corporate transformation of health care : can the public interest still be served?
- Title
- The corporate transformation of health care : can the public interest still be served? / John P. Geyman.
- Author
- Geyman, John P., 1931-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., [2004], ©2004.
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- Description
- xvi, 306 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Delivery of Health Care > economics
- Managed Care Programs > economics
- Health Facilities, Proprietary > trends
- Quality of Health Care
- Multihospital systems > United States
- Medical corporations > United States
- Health maintenance organizations
- Ownership > economics
- Public health > United States
- Medical economics > United States
- United States
- Health Care Reform > organization & administration
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Growth of investor-owned corporate health care -- Ch. 2. Hospitals and nursing home chains -- Ch. 3. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) -- Ch. 4. The health insurance industry -- Ch. 5. The pharmaceutical industry -- Ch. 6. Medically related industries -- Ch. 7. Impact of corporate practices on the health care system -- Ch. 8. Compromising the integrity of research -- Ch. 9. Disinformation and media control -- Ch. 10. Lobbying the government -- Ch. 11. Co-opting the regulators -- Ch. 12. Privatization vs. the public utility model of health care -- Ch. 13. Politics and options for health care reform -- Ch. 14. An approach to reform -- App. 1. The "United States national health insurance act," H. R. 676 -- App. 2. Potential administrative savings by state, 2003, achievable with a single-payer national health insurance program.
- ISBN
- 0826124666
- LCCN
- 2004019372
- OCLC
- ocm56324216
- SCSB-5177523
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries