1st Edition

Why the United States Does Not Have a National Health Program

By Vicente Navarro Copyright 1992
    266 Pages
    by Routledge

    266 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States. They, and not the people, are those who determine the policies of the U.S. government. The volume shows how the United States could indeed provide comprehensive and universal health benefits coverage to the majority of the U.S. population at lower costs than the current health care nonsystem.

    Preface Victor W. Sidel

    Introduction J. Warren Salmon

    PART 1: Background and Current Issues
    The "Corporatization" of U.S. Hospitals: What Can We Learn from the Nineteenth Century Industrial Experience? William D. White

    Walk-In Chains: The Proprietarization of Ambulatory Care Howard S. Berliner and Robb K. Burlage

    The Profitization of Health Promotion Nancy Milio

    The Corporate Compromise: A Marxist View of Health Maintenance Organizations and Prospective Payment David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler

    PART 2: Implications for the Medical Profession
    Reflections on Modern Doctoring John D. Stoeckle

    The Futures of Physicians: Agency and Autonomy Reconsidered J. Warren Salmon, William D. White and Joe Feinglass

    The Use of Medical Management Information Systems to Increase the Clinical Productivity of Physicians Joe Feinglass and J. Warren Salmon

    The Changing Character of the Medical Profession: A Theoretical Overview Donald Light and Sol Levine

    Professional Dominance or Proletarianization? Neither Vicente Navarro

    The Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship and Performance Monitoring: An Agency Perspective William D. White, J. Warren Salmon and Joe Feinglass

    Canadian Medicine: Dominance or Proletarianization? David Coburn

    Epilogue Vicente Navarro

    Contributors

    Index

    Biography

    Vicente Narraro