From company doctors to managed care
Subtitle: the United Mine Workers' noble experiment
By: Ivana Krajcinovic.
Series: Cornell studies in industrial and labor relations ;; no. 31
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: United Mine Workers of America. Welfare and Retirement Fund; Miners -- Medical care -- United States; Insurance, Health -- United States; Collective bargaining -- Mining industry -- United States
Description: The Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is widely acknowledged as the most innovative effort at group health care in the United States in the twentieth century. Ivana Krajcinovic describes the establishment, operation, and demise of the Fund that brought mining families from the backwater to the forefront of medical care is less than a decade.

Krajcinovic analyzes the success of the Fund over nearly three decades in providing high-quality cost-effective care to miners and their families. She also explains the irony of its dismantlement at the very moment when its innovations gained currency among mainstream commercial plans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and index.