1970s
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america
american economy
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Author_Carl F. Ameringer
business economics
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doctors
economic system
economics
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federal government
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health and medicine
health care
health care professionals
health care system
justice department
legal
market based health care
medical professionals
medical revolution
modern medicine
nonfiction
political
social change
united states
united states congress
us supreme court
Product details
- ISBN 9780520254800
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 change the rules of the health care system. Ameringer: lays out the key events that led up to this regime change; explores its broader social, political, and economic contexts; examines the views of both its proponents and opponents; and, considers its current trajectory.
Carl F. Ameringer is Professor of Health Policy and Politics at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of State Medical Boards and the Politics of Public Protection.
