The health care revolution : from medical monopoly to market competition /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ameringer, Carl F.
Corporate Author: Milbank Memorial Fund
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2008.
Series:California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 19.
Subjects:
United States. > Federal Trade Commission > History > 20th century.
American Medical Association > History > 20th century.
United States > Federal Trade Commission
American Medical Association
United States. > Federal Trade Commission
1900-1999
Medical care > United States > Finance > History > 20th century.
Health care reform > United States > History > 20th century.
Services de santé > Réforme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
Health care reform
Medical care > Finance
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The professional regime
  • Precursors of change
  • The triumph of market theory
  • The Federal Trade Commission takes the lead
  • The AMA case
  • A question of jurisdiction
  • Drawing the line between clinical and business practices
  • The quest for antitrust relief
  • The demonization of managed care.

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