- 168 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This important new study explores how American health care evolved in the 1990s, as well as the changes in public support and policy. Birenbaum examines where the interests of consumers and professionals have dovetailed and where they differ. He considers the health care system's future and suggested ways the system must be adjusted to provide better and wider coverage at reasonable costs. This volume is essential reading for scholars, students, and professionals in the medical field, as well as general readers concerned with health care issues. The 90s saw the country moving toward a realization that health care had become unaffordableâor an enormous financial burden for people with otherwise adequate incomes. Health care providers and consumers alike worried that the problem was becoming uncontrollable. Doctors saw their autonomy and control eroded, employers saw their costs rising significantly, the costs began shifting to employees, and alternative approaches to cost containment were explored.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- An Introduction to the Study of Professions
- 1. Health Care on the National Agenda
- 2. What's Behind the Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship
- 3. Driving Down Costs and Professional Autonomy
- 4. The Reorganization of Health Care Delivery
- 5. Managed Care and the Profession's Tarnished Jewel in the CrownâAcademic Health Centers
- 6. Doctors Respond to the Dark Side of Managed Care
- 7. How Managed Care Is Shaping Medical Practice
- 8. Hopes for Reform
- 9. The Future of American Medicine
- Index