This book shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States. They, and not the people, are those who determine the policies of the U.S. government. The volume shows how the United States could indeed provide comprehensive and universal health benefits coverage to the majority of the U.S. population at lower costs than the current health care nonsystem.
By:
Vicente Navarro
Imprint: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: illustrated edition
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9780895031051
ISBN 10: 0895031051
Series: Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 15 June 1992
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Victor W. Sidel Introduction J. Warren Salmon PART 1: Background and Current Issues The ""Corporatization"" of U.S. Hospitals: What Can We Learn from the Nineteenth Century Industrial Experience? William D. White Walk-In Chains: The Proprietarization of Ambulatory Care Howard S. Berliner and Robb K. Burlage The Profitization of Health Promotion Nancy Milio The Corporate Compromise: A Marxist View of Health Maintenance Organizations and Prospective Payment David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler PART 2: Implications for the Medical Profession Reflections on Modern Doctoring John D. Stoeckle The Futures of Physicians: Agency and Autonomy Reconsidered J. Warren Salmon, William D. White and Joe Feinglass The Use of Medical Management Information Systems to Increase the Clinical Productivity of Physicians Joe Feinglass and J. Warren Salmon The Changing Character of the Medical Profession: A Theoretical Overview Donald Light and Sol Levine Professional Dominance or Proletarianization? Neither Vicente Navarro The Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship and Performance Monitoring: An Agency Perspective William D. White, J. Warren Salmon and Joe Feinglass Canadian Medicine: Dominance or Proletarianization? David Coburn Epilogue Vicente Navarro Contributors Index
