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The corporate transformation of health care : can the public interest still be served? /
Annotation The author explores how the corporate transformation of hospitals, HMOs, 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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer Pub. Co.,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.