No Benefit

Crisis In America's Health Insurance Industry

Lawrence D. Weiss (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

156 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-15357-1 (ISBN)

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This book offers a timely and important analysis of the health insurance crisis in America. Relying on data from a wide range of publications about the health insurance industry, it investigates the causes of the industry's problems and analyzes the social effects of the growing crisis.

Lawrence D. Weiss is medical sociologist at the University of Alaska at Anchorage. He earned his doctoral degree in Sociology at SUNY-Binghamton and completed a post-doctoral degree at Harvard School of Public Health. He is author of numerous articles on national and international health issues.

1. Placing the Soclal Fact of Private Health Insurance in Perspective 2. Historical Development and Current Profile of the Commercial Health Insurance Industry 3. Creating the Uninsured 4. Employer Cost-cutting Strategies 5. Fraud and Deception 6. Price Fixing and Conspiracy 7. Insolvencies: Insurance Companies That Cannot Pay Claims 8. The Inefficient Private Sector 9. A Political Question: Accommodation, Compromise, or Struggle? 10. Summary and Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 225 mm
Gewicht	310 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Versicherungsbetriebslehre
ISBN-10	0-367-15357-2 / 0367153572
ISBN-13	978-0-367-15357-1 / 9780367153571
Zustand	Neuware