Full title: The rise and fall of HMOs : an American health care revolution / Jan Gregoire Coombs.

Author/creator: Coombs, Jan.

Call Numbers: N362.10425/55

Record Identifier: 74VKdJw7NZqO

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xviii, 412 p. ; 24 cm., Introduction : American health care insurance before 1970 -- 1. Dreams of a medical utopia -- 2. The HMO Act and its aftermath -- 3. Health care in rural America -- 4. Affiliated providers and necessary compromises -- 5. Emerging problems with Medicare and Medicaid -- 6. Entering a management revolution -- 7. Assessing HMO quality and consumer satisfaction in the 1980s -- 8. Idealism confronts realities -- 9. Competing values doom a partnership -- 10. The perils of antitrust in the health care marketplace -- 11. HMOs and public programs in the 1990s and early 2000s -- 12. HMO enrollment growth in the private sector in the 1990s and early 2000s -- 13. Demands for accountability -- 14. Critics and would-be reformers -- Conclusion : lessons from Marshfield -- App. 1. The meaning of community service at the Marshfield Clinic.

Publishers: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-398) and index.

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DDC: 362.1042584

MMS ID: 991019897639702626