Markets and medicine the politics of health care reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States - Giaimo, Susan (University of Michigan Press, 2002)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-291) and index
Introduction: cost containment and the governance of heath care -- Health care governance in the British NHS to 1989: a hybrid of corporatism and state hierarchy -- The British reforms: markets, managers, and the challenge to corporatism -- The corporatist settlement in German national health insurance -- The German reforms: grafting the market onto corporatism -- The autonomy of the solo practitioner in a liberal health care system: the United States -- Market reform as "unmanaged competition": the United States -- Conclusion: the limits of markets in health care