Markets and medicine : the politics of health care reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States / Susan Giaimo.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2002], ©2002.

xvii, 307 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p.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.