The corporate transformation of health care : can the public interest still be served? / John P. Geyman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geyman, John P., 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical corporations--United States.

Medical corporations.

Medical economics--United States.

Medical economics.

Multihospital systems--United States.

Multihospital systems.

Health maintenance organizations.

Public health--United States.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author explores how the corporate transformation of hospitals, HMO's, 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

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

Impacts of corporate practices on the health care system

Compromising the integrity of research

Disinformation and media control

Lobbying of 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8261-2467-4

OCLC:

476263491