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The corporate transformation of health care : can the public interest still be served? / John P. Geyman.
Holman Biotech Commons R728.2 .G49 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geyman, John P., 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical corporations--United States.
- Medical corporations.
- Multihospital systems.
- United States.
- Medical economics--United States.
- Medical economics.
- Multihospital systems--United States.
- Health maintenance organizations.
- Public health--United States.
- Public health.
- Delivery of Health Care--economics.
- Health Facilities, Proprietary--trends.
- Health Care Reform--organization & administration.
- Managed Care Programs--economics.
- Ownership--economics.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Delivery of Health Care--economics.
- United States.
- Health Facilities, Proprietary--trends.
- Health Care Reform--organization & administration.
- Managed Care Programs--economics.
- Ownership--economics.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., [2004]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Growth of investor-owned corporate health care
- Hospitals and nursing home chains
- Health maintenance organizations (HMOS)
- Health insurance industry
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826124666
- OCLC:
- 56324216
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