Why the United States Does Not Have a National Health Program

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• Preface Victor W. Sidel Introduction J. Warren Salmon PART 1: Background and Current IssuesThe "Corporatization" of U.S. Hospitals: What Can We Learn from the Nineteenth Century Industrial Experience? William D. White Walk-In Chains: The Proprietarization of Ambulatory Care Howard S. Berliner and Robb K. Burlage The Profitization of Health Promotion Nancy Milio The Corporate Compromise: A Marxist View of Health Maintenance Organizations and Prospective Payment David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler PART 2: Implications for the Medical ProfessionReflections on Modern Doctoring John D. Stoeckle The Futures of Physicians: Agency and Autonomy Reconsidered J. Warren Salmon, William D. White and Joe Feinglass The Use of Medical Management Information Systems to Increase the Clinical Productivity of Physicians Joe Feinglass and J. Warren Salmon The Changing Character of the Medical Profession: A Theoretical Overview Donald Light and Sol Levine Professional Dominance or Proletarianization? Neither Vicente Navarro The Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship and Performance Monitoring: An Agency Perspective William D. White, J. Warren Salmon and Joe Feinglass Canadian Medicine: Dominance or Proletarianization? David Coburn Epilogue Vicente Navarro Contributors Index