Mother of invention : how the government created free-market health care / Robert I. Field.

  • Field, Robert I.
Date:
[2014]
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Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Physical description

xvii, 308 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.

Contents

Whats private about the free market? -- The government and the private market in health care -- How the government created the pharmaceutical industry -- How the government created the hospital industry -- How the government created the medical profession -- How the government created private health insurance -- The distinctively American system that the government created -- Health reform, government initiative, and the future of American health care.

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    History of Medicine
    JM.6
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780199746750
  • 0199746753