Ensuring America's health : the public creation of the corporate health care system / Christy Ford Chapin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapin, Christy Ford, author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delivery of Health Care.

United States.

Health Care Reform.

History, 20th Century.

Insurance, Health.

Professional Corporations.

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

Health insurance--United States.

Health insurance.

Medical Subjects:

Delivery of Health Care.

United States.

Health Care Reform.

History, 20th Century.

Insurance, Health.

Professional Corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 358 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Background : physicians choose the insurance company model, late nineteenth century-1940s

Federal reform politics : implanting the insurance company model, 1945-1960

Sclerotic institution : the declining power of organized physicians and the AMA

Organized for profit : the hidden influence of insurance companies and the HIAA

The conflicted construction of Blue Shield : caught between Blue Cross and the AMA

Corporate health care : from cost controls to medical decision-making

The politics of medicare, 1957-1965

Epilogue : the limits of "comprehensive" reform, 1965-2010.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Chapin, Christy Ford, author. Ensuring America's health

ISBN:

9781107045347

1107045347

9781316319093

1316319091

Publisher Number:

99969183673

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.