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The corporate transformation of health care [[electronic resource] ] : can the public interest still be served? / / John P. Geyman



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Autore: Geyman John P. <1931-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The corporate transformation of health care [[electronic resource] ] : can the public interest still be served? / / John P. Geyman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Springer Pub. Co., c2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
Disciplina: 362.1/0425
Soggetto topico: Medical corporations - United States
Medical economics - United States
Multihospital systems - United States
Health maintenance organizations
Public health - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Growth of investor-owned corporate health care -- Hospitals and nursing home chains -- Health maintenance organizations (HMOS) -- Health insurance industry -- Pharmaceutical industry -- Medically-related industries -- Impacts of corporate practices on the health care system -- Compromising the integrity of research -- Disinformation and media control -- Lobbying of government -- Co-opting the regulators -- Privatization vs. public utility model of health care -- Politics and options for health care reform -- An approach to reform.
Sommario/riassunto: The author explores how the corporate transformation of hospitals, HMO's, 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
Titolo autorizzato: The corporate transformation of health care  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8261-2467-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782751403321
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