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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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University of Michigan Press
2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.