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The Health Care Revolution : From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition.

America's market-based health care system is the product of a revolution that overthrew the medical monopoly in the late 1970s. This book tells how this revolution came into being when the US Supreme Court and Congress prompted the antitrust agencies of the federal government to change the rule...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ameringer, Carl F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, 2004.
Colección:California/ Milbank Books on Health & the Public.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; Foreword by Carmen Hooker Odom, Daniel M. Fox, and Samuel L. Milbank; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Professional Regime; 2. Precursors of Change; 3. The Triumph of Market Theory; 4. The Federal Trade Commission Takes the Lead; 5. The AMA Case; 6. A Question of Jurisdiction; 7. Drawing the Line between Clinical and Business Practices; 8. The Quest for Antitrust Relief; 9. The Demonization of Managed Care; Conclusion; References; Index.