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Ensuring America's Health : the Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System.
This book provides an in-depth evaluation of the US health care system's development in the twentieth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of content; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Explaining Distinctive Features of U.S. Health Care; Organization of the Narrative; State-Society Relations; 1 Background: Physicians Choose the Insurance Company Model, Late Nineteenth Century-1940s; The Early Years: Physicians Forge a Collective Identity; Early Attempts to Organize Health Care; The Doctor: Not an Organization Man; The Governmental Response; The Insurance Company Model; Commercial Insurers: Dragged into Health Care.
- Medical Societies Launch Blue ShieldConclusion; 2 Federal Reform Politics: Implanting the Insurance Company Model, 1945-1960; The Ideological Setting of Soft Corporatism; Trumanś Pragmatic Reform; Toward the Consumer Ideal in Health Care; Informal Authority: Health Care Reform under Eisenhower; Prepaid Groups; Nonprofit Service Benefits; Reinsurance; Defeating Reform Proposals with the Insurance Company Model; Formal Authority: Employer-Provided Insurance; Internal Revenue Code of 1954; Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; Conclusion.
- 3 Sclerotic Institution: The Declining Power of Organized Physicians and the AMACrafting a National Political Voice; Politics: Style and Methods; Organization in Disarray; Grassroots Discontent; The AMA and the Health Insurance Market; Conclusion; 4 Organized for Profit: The Hidden Influence of Insurance Companies and the HIAA; Life Insurers and Political Expediency: The Roots of Health Insurance; Industry Division and Birth of the HIAA; The HIAA and Federal Politics: The Hidden Strategy; The HIAA Organizes the Market; The Cost Dilemma; Conclusion.
- 5 The Conflicted Construction of Blue Shield: Caught between Blue Cross and the AMAThe Complicated Childhood of Blue Shield; Doctors and the Problem of Blue Cross; Selling Blue Shield to Doctors; Blue Shield Attempts to Consolidate; Blue Shieldś Competitive and Financial Position; Growing Away from the AMA; Centralizing Blue Shield through Federal Programs; Conclusion; 6 Corporate Health Care: From Cost Controls to Medical Decision Making; Explaining Cost Problems; The AMA and Cost Containment; Commercial Insurance Companies and Cost Containment.
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Cost ContainmentDoctors: Professional Evolution through the Insurance Company Model; Conclusion; 7 The Politics of Medicare, 1957-1965; The Incremental Strategy; Late 1950s: The Hesitant Opposition; The Evolving Political Consensus; 1960 Showdown; King-Anderson: A ``Middle-of-the-Road ́́Approach; The AMAś War on Medicare; The HIAA Walks the Line; Blue Cross and Blue Shield Part Ways; Congressional Battles and the Making of Medicare; Conclusion; 8 Epilogue: The Limits of ``Comprehensive ́́Reform, 1965-2010; Health Care Reform, 1965-2010.