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Reforming the Health Care Market
David F. Drake
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Description for Reforming the Health Care Market
Paperback. Examining the health care market in a historical framework, this title analyzes the forces and events that have shaped American health care in the twentieth century and sheds light on why and how our health care system has dampened competitive market forces and failed to provide sound value for much of our health care expenditures. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
Examining the health care market in a historical framework, Drake analyzes the forces and events that have shaped American health care in the twentieth century and sheds new light on why and how our health care system has dampened competitive market forces and failed to provide sound value for much of our health care expenditures. He examines the roles that physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, businesses, individual consumers, and government legislation have played in creating a provider-dominated market in which the cost of care has been concealed from consumers. Comparing U.S. health care expenditures with those of other developed countries, he ... Read more
Examining the health care market in a historical framework, Drake analyzes the forces and events that have shaped American health care in the twentieth century and sheds new light on why and how our health care system has dampened competitive market forces and failed to provide sound value for much of our health care expenditures. He examines the roles that physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, businesses, individual consumers, and government legislation have played in creating a provider-dominated market in which the cost of care has been concealed from consumers. Comparing U.S. health care expenditures with those of other developed countries, he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9780878405688
SKU
V9780878405688
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About David F. Drake
David F. Drake was a senior vice president and the secretary-treasurer of the American Hospital Association, where he served in various capacities for twenty-five years. Beginning with the original negotiations with the Social Security Administration on the method of reimbursing hospitals for the Medicare program, he had extensive experience with various regulatory initiatives. In addition, he taught at Northwestern University's ... Read more
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