Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00Y37YZGG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 510 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Although the insurance company model was created during the 1930s, it continues to drive health care cost and quality problems today. Ensuring America's Health explains why the US health care system offers world-class medical services to some patients but is also exceedingly costly with fragmented care, poor distribution, and increasingly bureaucratized processes. Based on exhaustive historical research, this work traces how public and private power merged to favor a distinctive economic model that places insurance companies at the center of the system, where they both finance and oversee medical care. This wide-ranging work not only evaluates the overarching political and economic framework of the medical system but also provides rich narrative detail, examining the political dramas, corporate maneuverings, and forceful personalities that created American health care as we know it. This book breaks new ground in the fields of health care history, organizational studies, and American political economy.
Chapin has won numerous awards to support her work, including the John E. Christy Ford Chapin is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Rovensky Fellowship in American Business and Economic History and a Miller Center for Public Affairs Fellowship. Her work has been published in Studies
"A brilliant review of the history of medical practices and how" according to JoshMD. A brilliant review of the history of medical practices and how they evolved from cash based practices to insurance based practices.. "Brilliant history of the American Health Care System" according to Leslie Anne McNamara. Many scholars have written about the failure of health care reform in the United States but, there is an absence of literature on the actual American health care system. Christy Ford Chapin’s Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System helps fill this void in historical scholarship. Not only is Ensuring America’s Health a contribution to historical an. Yeah, huh? First let me say that I haven't read Chapin's book. I did read her op-ed in the New York Times, an essay that made a lot of claims about a faceless, manipulative, nearly omnipotent AMA stacking the deck on insurance programs and lifting the medical licenses and blocking hospital privileges of doctors who didn't toe the line - all without a single citation to allow fact-checking. Now this was an op-ed in a m
Through impressive research and argumentation, Christy Ford Chapin examines how the 'insurance company model' rose to prominence and eventually to actual governance of health care consumers and practitioners this book is an essential contribution to the historiography of the US health care system and will be of great interest to historians of medicine, policy, and business." Beatriz Hoffman, The American Historical Review . This book is the best treatment we have of the historical dimensions of our current health care crisis and will prove to be an indispen