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1 online resource (350 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: THE RISE OF MANAGED CARE; CHAPTER 1. Marcus Welby Medicine; CHAPTER 2. The Origins of Managed Care; CHAPTER 3. The Government Steps In; CHAPTER 4. Managed Care Takes Over; CHAPTER 5. The Business of Health Care; Part TWO: THE MODERN HEALTH ECONOMY; CHAPTER 6. Merger Mania; CHAPTER 7. Quality; CHAPTER 8. Fulfilling the Promise of Managed Care; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles these and other key questions in the first major economic and historical investigation of the field. Focusing on the doctor-patient relationship, he begins with the era of the independently practicing physician--epitomized by Marcus Welby, the beloved father figure/doctor in the 1960s television. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Economic aspects. |
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United States. |
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Managed care plans (Medical care) |
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Medical economics -- United States.
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Medical economics. |
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Public health -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Public health -- Economic aspects. |
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Public health. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dranove, David. Economic Evolution of American Health Care : From Marcus Welby to Managed Care. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2002 9780691102535 |
| ISBN |
9781400824687 (electronic book) |
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1400824680 (electronic book) |
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