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Mother of invention : how the government created free-market health care / Robert I. Field.
Lippincott Library - Reserve Desk RA393 .F54 2014
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Field, Robert I., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--United States.
- Medical care.
- Medical care--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Health Care Sector.
- Health Care Reform.
- Public-Private Sector Partnerships.
- Government.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Care Sector.
- Health Care Reform.
- Public-Private Sector Partnerships.
- Government.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 308 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- This book traces the government's role in building four key health care sectors into the financial powerhouses they are today: pharmaceuticals, hospitals, the medical profession, and private insurance. It traces their history, surveys their growth, and highlights some of their greatest success stories, which together reveal the indispensable role of public initiatives in contemporary private health care.
- Contents:
- What's private about the free market?
- The government and the private market in health care
- How the government created the pharmaceutical industry
- How the government created the hospital industry
- How the government created the medical profession
- How the government created private health insurance
- The distinctively American system that the government created
- Health reform, government initiative, and the future of American health care.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Giera and Kimberly Hirschman Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780199746750
- 0199746753
- OCLC:
- 854541739
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