From Company Doctors to Managed Care : The United Mine Workers' Noble Experiment / Ivana Krajcinovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krajcinovic, Ivana, author.

Series:

Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations Series

Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Mine Workers of America. Welfare and Retirement Fund.

United Mine Workers of America.

Collective bargaining--Mining industry--United States.

Collective bargaining.

Health insurance--United States.

Health insurance.

Miners--Medical care--United States.

Miners.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 212 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is widely acknowledged as the most innovative effort at group health care in the United States in the twentieth century. Ivana Krajcinovic describes the establishment, operation, and demise of the Fund that brought mining families from the backwater to the forefront of medical care in less than a decade. Krajcinovic analyzes the success of the Fund over nearly three decades in providing high-quality cost-effective care to miners and their families. She also explains the irony of its dismantlement at the very moment when its innovations gained currency among mainstream commercial plans.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures, Tables, and Maps

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION. The Centrality of Health Benefits in Labor Contracts

CHAPTER 1. The Early History of Health Plans for Workers

CHAPTER 2. Bargaining for Benefits: The Fund and the Transformation of Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry

CHAPTER 3. Designing the Fund

CHAPTER 4. The Delivery of Physician Care under the Fund's Managed Care Initiatives

CHAPTER 5. Hospital Care: The Miners Memorial Hospital Association

CHAPTER 6.External Challenges to the Operation of the Fund

CHAPTER 7. The Transformation and Dismantling of the Fund

Appendix: Data Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501722042

1501722042

OCLC:

1080550499