Corporatizing American health care : how we lost our health care system /
Derlet, Robert W.,1949-author.
"The author traces the historical progression of health care policy in the United States toward corporatization, which has pulled the country away from a model of small practices and patient-focused care to one that prioritizes profit and tracks both patient care and outcomes as billing codes"--
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index.
Prescription drugs : monopolies and profits -- Hospitals : profit first -- Physicians -- Health plans : the money middlemen -- European systems of health-care delivery -- The Affordable Care Act of 2010 and other federal health-care laws -- Emergency departments -- The medical implant device industry -- Tests and studies : radiology, laboratory, and technical procedures -- Nursing homes and special facilities
"The author traces the historical progression of health care policy in the United States toward corporatization, which has pulled the country away from a model of small practices and patient-focused care to one that prioritizes profit and tracks both patient care and outcomes as billing codes"--
Medical care
Medical economics
Medical policy
Medical care.
Medical economics.
Medical policy.