1st Edition
No Benefit Crisis In America's Health Insurance Industry
By Lawrence D. Weiss
Copyright 1992
168 Pages
by
Routledge
169 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
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.
