Markets and Medicine : the Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States.

Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experiences of Britain, Germany, and the United States in the 1990s, Susan Giaimo explores how countries pursue diverse policy responses and how suc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2009.
Temas:
Health care reform > Germany.
Health care reform > Great Britain.
Health care reform > United States.
Medical policy > Germany.
Medical policy > Great Britain.
Medical policy > United States.
Services de santé > Réforme > Allemagne.
Politique sanitaire > États-Unis.
Services de santé > Réforme > Grande-Bretagne.
Services de santé > Réforme > États-Unis.
Politique sanitaire > Allemagne.
Politique sanitaire > Grande-Bretagne.
Health care reform
Medical policy
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Common Abbreviations Used in the Text; Introduction: Cost Containment and the Governance of Health Care; 1. Health Care Governance in the British NHS to 1989: A Hybrid of Corporatism and State Hierarchy; 2. The British Reforms: Markets, Managers, and the Challenge to Corporatism; 3. The Corporatist Settlement in German National Health Insurance; 4. The German Reforms: Grafting the Market onto Corporatism; 5. The Autonomy of the Solo Practitioner in a Liberal Health Care System: The United States.
  • 6. Market Reform as ""Unmanaged Competition"": The United StatesConclusion: The Limits of Markets in Health Care; Appendix: Information on Interviews and Methodology; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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