Corporate Transformation of Health Care

Warren Salmon

• Preface Vicente Navarro Introduction J. Warren Salmon PART 1: Background to the Corporatization of Medicine Health Planning as a Regulatory Strategy Louis Tannen Business and the Pushcart Vendors in an Age of Supermarkets LindaA. Bergthold Profit and Health Care: Trends in Corporatization and Proprietarization J. Warren Salmon PART 2: Impacts on Health Care Institutions The Health Maintenance Organization Strategy J. Warren Salmon Proprietary Hospital Chains and Academic Medical Centers Howard S. Berliner and Robb K. Burlage The Proprietarization of Health Care and the Underdevelopment of the Public Sector David G. Whiteis and J. Warren Salmon Corporatization and the Social Transformation of Doctoring John B. McKinly and John D. Stoeckle PART 3: International Experiences Multi-national Operations of U.S. For-Profit Hospital Chains: Trends and Implications Howard S. Berliner and Carol Regan Corporatization and Deprivatization of Health Services in Canada Bruce J. Fried, Raisa B. Deber, and Peggy Leatt Lessons From America: The Commercialization and Growth of Private Health Care in Britain Geof Rayner PART 4: Critique of Influences on Popular Thinking Medical History as Justification Rather Than Explanation: A Critique of Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine Vicente Navarro Physicians as Employees: Stanley Wohl's "The Medical Industrial Complex Joe Feinglass Mystery as a Means of Raising Doubts about Health Care for Profit: Sara Paretsky's Bitter Medicine Agatha M. Gallo Mindbend against a Corporate Intrusion into Health Care Arthur R. Strobeck, Jr. Contributors Index