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.
Author(s): Carl F. Ameringer
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 272
0520254805......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Foreword by Carmen Hooker Odom, Daniel M. Fox, and Samuel L. Milbank......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
1. The Professional Regime......Page 38
2. Precursors of Change......Page 59
3. The Triumph of Market Theory......Page 76
4. The Federal Trade Commission Takes the Lead......Page 95
5. The AMA Case......Page 117
6. A Question of Jurisdiction......Page 136
7. Drawing the Line between Clinical and Business Practices......Page 152
8. The Quest for Antitrust Relief......Page 172
9. The Demonization of Managed Care......Page 190
Conclusion......Page 213
References......Page 228
Index......Page 248
