Background Papers on Industry's Changing Role in Health Care Delivery

by R.H. Egdahl, Karl T. Sr. Benedict, John D. Blum, Rick J. Carlson, G.H. Collings

Overview

Excerpt from Conference Address One of the most complex and significant social issues facing our nation is reform of our national health system. I am personally committed, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber is committed, to doing everything we can to help improve that system while simultaneously gaining some measure of control over the tremen­ dous rate of cost escalation. I feel very strongly that in the months ahead, business leaders must become actively involved in a concerted effort to strike a balance between our desire to assure the best medical care for all and the reality of doing so at a cost our society can afford. For the past two years I have been chairman of the Business Roundtable's Task Force on Health and in that capacity have been working closely with the Washington Business Group on Health. Through this exposure and the encour­ aging results of Goodyear's own cost containment activities, I was asked to serve on HEW Secretary Califano's Advisory Committee on National Health Insurance. This committee, representing a broad spectrum of interests and expertise, will be meeting in cities across the country and will hold hearings in Washington before entering into final discussions with HEW and other admin­ istration officials. The result of its work is to be combined with that of the HEW staff in formulating the basis of President Carter's national health insurance proposal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461394297
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/21/2011
Series:	Springer Series on Industry and Health Care , #3
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

I. Models.- 1. A Corporation’s Experience with Independent Practice Association HMOs.- 2. Health—A Corporate Dilemma; Health Care Management—A Corporate Solution.- 3. Industry’s Medical Involvement Today.- 4. Union Health Clinics.- 5. Comprehensive Care through Physicians Serving in Both Corporate and Private Practice.- 6. A Corporation’s Broad-Brush Approach to Meeting Changing Needs.- 7. A New Corporate Prepaid Group Health Plan.- II. Trends.- 8. A Classification of Seven Corporate Health Clinics.- 9. Corporate Mental Health Benefits.- 10. Foundations for Medical Care and Corporate Health Benefits.- 11. Contracting with an Independent Medical Organization for Corporate Health Programs.- 12. Cost Containment through Benefit Plan Design.- 13. Monitoring the Quality of Health Care Services.- III. Challenges.- 14. Corporate Reaction to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.- 15. The Problems of Industry-Sponsored Health Programs.- 16. The Corporation and Its Environment: Corporate Responsibility in an Era of Limits.- 17. Growing Legal Liability in Corporate Health Clinics.- 18. Economic Implications of Employer-Provided Health Care.