Ensuring America's health : the public creation of the corporate health care system /
Chapin, Christy Ford,author.
Background : physicians choose the insurance company model, late nineteenth century-1940s -- Federal reform politics : implanting the insurance company model, 1945-1960 -- Sclerotic institution : the declining power of organized physicians and the AMA -- Organized for profit : the hidden influence of insurance companies and the HIAA -- The conflicted construction of Blue Shield : caught between Blue Cross and the AMA -- Corporate health care : from cost controls to medical decision-making -- The politics of medicare, 1957-1965 -- Epilogue : the limits of "comprehensive" reform, 1965-2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Employer-sponsored health insurance
Health insurance
Medical care