The Private Regulation of American Health Care

by Betty Leyerle

Overview

This work discusses a transformation of health care delivery that was launched by coalitions of business leaders during the early 1970s. It argues for a single-payer system and considers how public regulation offers the possibility of democratic participation in setting health care policies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563242892
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Betty Leyerle is Professor of Sociology and Human Services at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. She is the author of Moving and Shaking American Medicine: The Structure of a Socioeconomic Transformation (1984). Dr. Leyerle holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Managed Competition—The Private Regulation of American Health Care; Chapter 1 The Twenty-Year-Old Crisis; Chapter 2 The Basic Components of Private Regulation; Chapter 3 The Evolution of Private Regulation; Chapter 4 Managing Health; Chapter 5 Managing “Quality” through Outcomes Research; Chapter 6 Conclusions;

Editorial Reviews

Sociologist Leyerle describes how powerful groups have used such bureaucratic rhetoric as rationality, accountability, and technical efficiency to manipulate, divide, and polarize segments of the population to allow the US health care system to be radically transformed without the possibility of concerted political resistance. She draws on the theories of Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Michel Foucault, but speaks in plain language. Paper edition (289-3), $17.50. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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