Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107622875 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 372 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Read it!" Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University"Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System is an important history of how US health care came to be dominated by the private insurance industry. It explains how both public and private forces created Medicare in 1965 and how the 'insurance company model' of health care finance has prevailed ever since. This book is the best treatment we have of the historical dimensions of our current health care crisis and will p
"A brilliant review of the history of medical practices and how" according to JoshMD. A brilliant review of the history of medical practices and how they evolved from cash based practices to insurance based practices.. Brilliant history of the American Health Care System Leslie Anne McNamara Many scholars have written about the failure of health care reform in the United States but, there is an absence of literature on the actual American health care system. Christy Ford Chapin’s Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System helps fill this void in historical scholarship. Not only is Ensuring America’s Health a contribution to historical and policy sc. Yeah, huh? James Thomas First let me say that I haven't read Chapin's book. I did read her op-ed in the New York Times, an essay that made a lot of claims about a faceless, manipulative, nearly omnipotent AMA stacking the deck on insurance programs and lifting the medical licenses and blocking hospital privileges of doctors who didn't toe the line - all without a single citation to allow fact-checking. Now this was an op-ed in a mass market
A key question driving her research is how the blending of public and private power has created a distinctive form of capitalism - American capitalism. . Her areas of research include political, economic, and business history, as well as the history of capitalism. Her work has been published in Studies in American Political Development, the Journal of Policy History, Enterprise and Society, and the Business History Review. Rovensky Fellowship in Amer
Based on exhaustive historical research, this work traces how public and private power merged to favor a distinctive economic model that places insurance companies at the center of the system, where they both finance and oversee medical care. This wide-ranging work not only evaluates the overarching political and economic framework of the medical system but also provides rich narrative detail, examining the political dramas, corporate maneuverings, and forceful personalities that created American health care as we know it. This book breaks new ground in the fields of health care history, organizational studies, and American political economy.. Ensuring America's Health explains why the