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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807653803321

Autore

Giaimo Susan

Titolo

Markets and medicine : the politics of health care reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States / / Susan Giaimo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor [Mich.], : University of Michigan Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-43773-9

9786612437731

0-472-02352-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Health care reform - Germany

Health care reform - Great Britain

Health care reform - United States

Medical policy - Germany

Medical policy - Great Britain

Medical policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- 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 States -- Conclusion: The Limits of Markets in Health Care -- Appendix: Information on Interviews and Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores diverse governmental and institutional solutions to containing health care costs.