ABSTRACT
The author explores how the corporate transformation of hospitals, HMOs, 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 precarious state of America's under- and uninsured.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|63 pages
Background to the Corporatization of Medicine
part 2|71 pages
Impacts on Health Care Institutions
chapter Chapter 6|15 pages
The Proprietarization of Health Care and the Underdevelopment of the Public Sector
part 3|57 pages
International Experiences
chapter Chapter 8|11 pages
Multi-national Operations of U.S. For-Profit Hospital Chains: Trends and Implications
chapter Chapter 10|21 pages
Lessons from America: The Commercialization and Growth of Private Health Care in Britain
part 4|62 pages
Critique of Influences on Popular Thinking