The Public-private Health Care State: Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy

by Stevens,Rosemary A.

• ISBN13: 9780765803498
• ISBN10: 0765803496
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Weill Cornell Medical College, NY. Explores interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health care in terms of history and its continuing evolution today. Topics include negotiating a national governmental role, the medical professions, and more. For medical historians.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Inventing Public-Private Policy for Hospitals in the United States
Introduction to Section I	p. 3
Sweet Charity: State Aid to Hospitals in Pennsylvania, 1870-1910	p. 7
"A Poor Sort of Memory": Voluntary Hospitals and Government before the Depression	p. 53
Negotiating a National Governmental Role
Introduction to Section II	p. 81
Can the Government Govern? The Establishment of Veterans Hospitals	p. 89
Letter from America, 1961	p. 113
Anatomy of a Dilemma: Creating and Implementing Medicaid, 1965-1970	p. 117
Governments and Medical Care: Comparing the U.S and Great Britain in 1977	p. 157
Buzzwords, Rationality, and Dreams: 1968-1986
Introduction to Section III	p. 175
The Federal Role in Health Care Research: Thoughts for Discussion and Development (1968)	p. 181
The Federal Role in Relation to HMOs: Laissez Faire versus Regulation (1970)	p. 191
Regionalization and Health Manpower (1977)	p. 195
Health Care in a Context of Civil Rights (1981)	p. 219
Health Care "Equity": Slippery Concept, Elusive Goals (1986)	p. 223
The Medical Profession: Between Government and Market?
Introduction to Section IV	p. 235
Trends in Medical Specialization in the United States (1970)	p. 241
The Future of the Medical Profession (1986)	p. 255
Professional Competence and Specialty Board Certification (1999)	p. 273
Public Roles for the Medical Profession in the United States: Beyond Theories of Decline and Fall (2001)	p. 285
The American Health Care State
Introduction to Section V	p. 307
The American Hospital as a Social Institution: Past is Prologue (1986)	p. 313
Hospitals at the End of the Twentieth Century (1999)	p. 323
Index	p. 343
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