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Mother of invention : how the government created free-market health care / Robert I. Field.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199908608
  • 0199908605
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mother of inventionDDC classification:
  • 362.1 23
LOC classification:
  • RA393
NLM classification:
  • W 74 AA1
Online resources:
Contents:
Whats private about the free market? -- The government and the private market in health care -- How the government created the pharmaceutical industry -- How the government created the hospital industry -- How the government created the medical profession -- How the government created private health insurance -- The distinctively American system that the government created -- Health reform, government initiative, and the future of American health care.
Summary: Underlying America's robust private health care industry is an indispensible partner that has guided and supported it for over half a century: the government. This book demonstrates how government initiatives created American health care as we know it today and places the Obama plan in its true historical and political context.
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Whats private about the free market? -- The government and the private market in health care -- How the government created the pharmaceutical industry -- How the government created the hospital industry -- How the government created the medical profession -- How the government created private health insurance -- The distinctively American system that the government created -- Health reform, government initiative, and the future of American health care.

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Underlying America's robust private health care industry is an indispensible partner that has guided and supported it for over half a century: the government. This book demonstrates how government initiatives created American health care as we know it today and places the Obama plan in its true historical and political context.

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