The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition"In The Health Care Revolution, Carl Ameringer elucidates as no one else has done the central importance of antitrust regulation as health care policy in the United States since the 1970s, with an inside view into the activities of the Federal Trade Commission. An exciting, lucid, and ambitious book."—Rosemary A. Stevens, author of The Public- Private Health Care State "Carl Ameringer's penetrating scholarly vision permits him to see inside the medical and legal professions. The result is an authoritative monograph that will claim the attention of scholars and policymakers because it frames the modern history of medical care in new and important ways."—Edward D. Berkowitz, author of Something Happened: A Political and Cultural History of the Seventies |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 The Professional Regime | 21 |
2 Precursors of Change | 42 |
3 The Triumph of Market Theory | 59 |
4 The Federal Trade Commission Takes the Lead | 78 |
5 The AMA Case | 100 |
6 A Question of Jurisdiction | 119 |
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