Health Against Wealth : HMOs and the Breakdown of Medical Trust
George. Anders
Bok Engelsk 1998 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Boston : : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, , 1998.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (320 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Front Matter; Praise for Health Against Wealth ; Half Title; Books by George Anders ; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition ; Preface ; 1. A Baby's Struggle ; 2. Dismantling the Old System ; 3. The New Mandarins ; 4. The Barons of Austerity ; 5. Turning Doctors into Gatekeepers ; 6. Heart Trouble ; 7. The Breast Cancer Battles ; 8. Is This Really an Emergency? ; 9. HMOs and Mental Health ; 10. When the Elderly Fall Sick ; 11. Poor Patients, Shoddy Care ; 12. The Best Lobbyists in America ; 13. A Question of Quality. - 14. Building a Better System Back Matter; Notes ; Index. - The HMO system is often praised for cutting runaway costs. It is supposed to act as a powerful market force to stop greedy doctors and hospitals from treating patients like pi-atas, to be cut open for profit. Health Against Wealth reveals that when you are confronting cancer, heart disease, or psychiatric illness, when you face a medical emergency or your child requires complex pediatric surgery, all those cost-saving rules and artful ways of keeping doctors frugal can turn against you. Wall Street Journal reporter George Anders explains why "" managed care "" is so appealing to employers and
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| Emner | Health maintenance organizations - United States
Electronic books. -- local. Managed care plans (Medical care) -- United States. Usa medisinsk sosialarbeid helsevesen sosialmedisin |
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| ISBN | 0395822831
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