Corporate Transformation of Health Care Can the Public Interest Still Be Served?

Name: Corporate Transformation of Health Care Can the Public Interest Still Be Served?
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ISBN: 9780826124661

ISBN-10: 0826124666

ISBN-13: 9780826124661

Edition: 2004

Authors: John P. Geyman

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Tables and Figures


Preface


Acknowledgments



Growth of Investor-Owned Corporate Health Care



Corporate Contributions to the Soaring Costs of Health Care



Hospitals and Nursing Home Chains



Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)



The Health Insurance Industry



The Pharmaceutical Industry



Medically Related Industries



Impact of Corporate Practices on the Health Care System



How Health Care Corporations Defend and Promote Their Interests



Compromising the Integrity of Research



Disinformation and Media Control



Lobbying the Government



Co-Opting the Regulators



Is Reform Possible?



Privatization vs. the Public Utility Model of Health Care



Politics and Options for Health Care Reform



An Approach to Reform



The "United States National Health Insurance Act," H.R. 676



Potential Administrative Savings by State, 2003, Achievable with a Single-Payer National Health Insurance Program


Index