Unmanageable Care :: an Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico.

In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at an HMO and records what it's really like to manage care. Set at a health insurance company dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the health care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of acce...

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1. Verfasser: Mulligan, Jessica M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : NYU Press, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at an HMO and records what it's really like to manage care. Set at a health insurance company dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the health care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing and providing care on the island. Through interviews and participant observation, the book explores the everyday contexts in which market reforms were enacted. It follows privatization into the compliance department of a managed care organization, through the visits of federal auditors to a health.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (312 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780814764992
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9780814770702
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