Grace Budrys

Market-Based Health Care (eBook, ePUB)

All Myth, No Reality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Market-Based Health Care defines for students the challenges, arguments and politics behind the concept of consumer-driven health care including what it would look like if the business sector would do a better job of organizing our health care arrangements and remove any governmental components built into the system. As a sociologist interested in health care, Budrys focuses on the impact our health care arrangements have on not just an economic level but how they affect people as well. This is an overwhelmingly complex topic and debate and one that is discussed widely in the classroom. This will be the first text to clearly present the market-based health care model and how doctors, medical insurance and "big pharma" play a role in its development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538128374
• Artikelnr.: 57137332

Autorenporträt

Grace Budrys is Professor Emerita of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago. She is the author of numerous books, including Market-Based Health Care: All Myth, No Reality, Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health or Illness, Third Edition, and How Nonprofits Work. In addition to teaching, she chaired the Department of Public Services and the Masters of Public Health programs at DePaul University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The Market-Based Health Care Model
3 The Market for Health Insurance
4 Government Intervention and Health Insurance
5 Doctors
6 Hospitals
7 Pharmaceuticals
8 Health Sector Occupations and Organizations
9 Market-Based Health Care: The Model and the Reality
Epilogue: Some Reflections on Solutions
Bibliography
Index