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Book SynopsisThe 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 that keeps the present system in place. Exposing the shortcomings of reform proposals that do little to alter the status quo, he makes a case for a workable single-payer system. This is an essential read for today''s practitioners, policy makers, healthcare analysts and providers, and all those concerned with the precarious state of America''s under- and uninsured.
Table of ContentsPreface Vicente Navarro
Introduction J. Warren Salmon
PART 1: Background to the Corporatization of Medicine Health Planning as a Regulatory Strategy Louis Tannen
Business and the Pushcart Vendors in an Age of Supermarkets LindaA. Bergthold
Profit and Health Care: Trends in Corporatization and Proprietarization J. Warren Salmon
PART 2: Impacts on Health Care Institutions The Health Maintenance Organization Strategy J. Warren Salmon
Proprietary Hospital Chains and Academic Medical Centers Howard S. Berliner and Robb K. Burlage
The Proprietarization of Health Care and the Underdevelopment of the Public Sector David G. Whiteis and J. Warren Salmon
Corporatization and the Social Transformation of Doctoring John B. McKinly and John D. Stoeckle
PART 3: International Experiences Multi-national Operations of U.S. For-Profit Hospital Chains: Trends and Implications Howard S. Berliner and Carol Regan
Corporatization and Deprivatization of Health Services in Canada Bruce J. Fried, Raisa B. Deber, and Peggy Leatt
Lessons From America: The Commercialization and Growth of Private Health Care in Britain Geof Rayner
PART 4: Critique of Influences on Popular Thinking Medical History as Justification Rather Than Explanation: A Critique of Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine Vicente Navarro
Physicians as Employees: Stanley Wohl's "The Medical Industrial Complex Joe Feinglass
Mystery as a Means of Raising Doubts about Health Care for Profit: Sara Paretsky's Bitter Medicine Agatha M. Gallo
Mindbend against a Corporate Intrusion into Health Care Arthur R. Strobeck, Jr.
Contributors
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