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
Main Author: Ameringer, Carl F.
Corporate Author: Milbank Memorial Fund
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Federal Trade Commission.
American Medical Association.
American Medical Association
United States > Federal Trade Commission
American Medical Association > History > 20th century.
United States. > Federal Trade Commission > History > 20th century.
Medical care > Finance.
Health care reform.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
Services de sante > Reforme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Health care reform > United States > History > 20th century.
Medical care > United States > Finance > History > 20th century.
United States.
History
Electronic books.
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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