Reforming the Health Care Market: An Interpretive Economic History

by David F. Drake

Book Overview

Examining the health care market in a historical framework, Drake analyzes the forces and events that have shaped American health care in the twentieth century and sheds new light on why and how our health care system has dampened competitive market forces and failed to provide sound value for much of our health care expenditures. He examines the roles that physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, businesses, individual consumers, and government...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878405682
• ISBN13: 9780878405688
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher