The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition Volume 19

by Carl F. Ameringer

Book Overview

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, Carl F. Ameringer 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520254805
• ISBN13: 9780520254800
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"