Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "free-Market" Health Care

by Robert I. Field

By relying on private enterprise more than any other developed nation, American health care has all the appearances of the free-market in action. And for more than a hundred years, attempts to reform this system (including President Obama's Affordable Care Act) have been met with opposition from parties warning against the stifling effect of government intervention.

What these warnings about federal intrusion overlook is the fact that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199746753
• ISBN13: 9780199746750
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"