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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ameringer, Carl F

Titel

The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

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Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• America's market-based health care system, unique among the nations of the world, is in large part the product of an obscure, yet profound, revolution that overthrew the medical monopoly in the late 1970s. In this lucid, balanced account, the author tells how this revolution came into being when the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress prompted the antitrust agencies of the federal government -- the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department -- to change the rules of the health care system. Ameringer lays out the key events that led up to this regime change; explores its broader social, political, and economic contexts; examines the views of both its proponents and opponents; and considers its current trajectory. Tables, Figures.