The corporate transformation of health care can the public interest still be served? /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer Pub. Co.,
c2004.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.