The Rise and Fall of HMOs
Subtitle: An American Health Care Revolution
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: April 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780299202408
Subjects: Health systems & services; Medical; Medical / Nursing; USA; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Issues; Medical / Health Policy; Health Policy; Health care reform; Health maintenance organizatio; Health maintenance organizations; History; United States; Wisconsin
Description: The author discusses why HMOs failed to improve services or control costs. Using Wisconsin's Marshfield Clinic as a case study, he examines the advantages and disadvantages of publicly and privately financed medical care, and of nonprofit and for-profit systems; the implications of benefits coverage and pharmaceutical costs care; the implications of benefits coverage and pharmaceutical costs on employers, employees and patients; and issues involving medical ethics and autonomy; clinical practice guidelines, managed care strategies, rationing, and patients' rights.