The Privatization Of Care
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Author |
: Pat Armstrong |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2019-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000650600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100065060X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Privatization of Care by : Pat Armstrong
Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising practices that treat residents, families and staff with dignity and respect in ways that can also bring joy. While we did find ideas worth sharing, we also saw a disturbing trend toward privatization. Privatization is the process of moving away not only from public delivery and public payment for health services but also from a commitment to shared responsibility, democratic decision-making, and the idea that the public sector operates according to a logic of service to all. This book documents moves toward privatization in the six countries and their consequences for families, staff, residents, and, eventually, us all. None of the countries has escaped pressure from powerful forces in and outside government pushing for privatization in all its forms. However, the wide variations in the extent and nature of privatization indicate privatization is not inevitable and our research shows there are alternatives.
Author |
: M. Gregg Bloche |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2002-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199770021 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199770026 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Privatization of Health Care Reform by : M. Gregg Bloche
Markets, not politics, are driving health care reform in America today. Inventive entrepreneurs have transformed medicine over the past ten years, and no end to this period of rapid change is in sight. Consumer anxieties over managed care are mounting, and medical costs are again soaring. Meanwhile, the federal government remains mostly on the health policy sidelines, as it has since the collapse of the Clinton administration's campaign for health care reform. This book addresses the changes that the market has wrought- and the challenges this transformation poses for courts and regulators. The law that governs the medical marketplace is an incomplete, overlapping patchwork, conceived mainly without medical care specifically in mind. The ensuing confusion and incoherence are a central theme of this book. Fragmentation of health care lawmaking has foreclosed coordinated, system-wide policy responses, and lack of national consensus on many of the central questions in health care policy has translated into legal contradiction and bitter controversy. Written by leading commentators on American health law and policy, this book examines the widely-perceived failings of managed care and the law's relationship to them. Some of the contributors treat law as a cause of trouble; others emphasize the law's potential and limits as a corrective tool when the market disappoints. The first two chapters present contrasting overviews of how the doctrines and decision-makers that constitute health law work together, for better or worse, to constrain the medical marketplace. The next six chapters address particular market developments and regulatory dilemmas. These include the power of state versus federal government in the health sphere, conflict between insureres and patients and providers over medical need, financial rewards to physicians for frugal practice, the role of antitrust law in the organization of health care provision and financing, the future of public hospitals, and the place of investor-owned versus non-profit institutions. Acknowledging the health sphere's complexities, the authors seek remedies that fit this country's legal, political, and cultural constraints and can contribute to reasoned regulatory goverance. Within limits they believe a measure of rationality is possible.
Author |
: Allyson Pollock |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1844675394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781844675395 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis NHS Plc by : Allyson Pollock
An analysis of the transition from universal, publicly funded health care to New Labour s application of market principles: a national institution reaching crisis point and a key lesson for those concerned with health care everywhere.
Author |
: Vera Tarman |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto PressHigher education |
Total Pages |
: 127 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0920059538 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780920059531 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Privatization and Health Care by : Vera Tarman
The surge of privatization in Canada threatens the social security network that has been carefully built over the years. People are asking, "What will this mean for 'human' services in the future? Will the same service be forthcoming under privatized health care as that to which we have become accustomed under a publicly owned system?" These are some of the questions that Vera Ingrid Tarman examines in this timely new book. After carefully laying out the boundaries and the theoretical issues surrounding the private versus public debate, she then uses nursing homes in Ontario as a case study to illustrate the impact of privatization. A careful reading of this book will help us to understand what some of our most cherished institutions will look like under a profit oriented private system.
Author |
: Donald Cohen |
Publisher |
: The New Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2021-11-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620976623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620976625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Privatization of Everything by : Donald Cohen
The book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian “An essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons.” —Naomi Klein A sweeping exposé of the ways in which private interests strip public goods of their power and diminish democracy, the hardcover edition of The Privatization of Everything elicited a wide spectrum of praise: Kirkus Reviews hailed it as “a strong, economics-based argument for restoring the boundaries between public goods and private gains,” Literary Hub featured the book on a Best Nonfiction list, calling it “a far-reaching, comprehensible, and necessary book,” and Publishers Weekly dubbed it a “persuasive takedown of the idea that the private sector knows best.” From Diane Ravitch (“an important new book about the dangers of privatization”) to Heather McGhee (“a well-researched call to action”), the rave reviews mirror the expansive nature of the book itself, covering the impact of privatization on every aspect of our lives, from water and trash collection to the justice system and the military. Cohen and Mikaelian also demonstrate how citizens can—and are—wresting back what is ours: A Montana city took back its water infrastructure after finding that they could do it better and cheaper. Colorado towns fought back well-funded campaigns to preserve telecom monopolies and hamstring public broadband. A motivated lawyer fought all the way to the Supreme Court after the state of Georgia erected privatized paywalls around its legal code. “Enlightening and sobering” (Rosanne Cash), The Privatization of Everything connects the dots across a wide range of issues and offers what Cash calls “a progressive voice with a firm eye on justice [that] can carefully parse out complex issues for those of us who take pride in citizenship.”
Author |
: Meredeth Turshen |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813525810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813525815 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Privatizing Health Services in Africa by : Meredeth Turshen
Privatizing Health Services in Africa analyzes the disappearance of public health in the form of state services in Africa, and the growth of a private market in health care that will serve primarily an urban elite. Meredeth Turshen considers the implications of introducing private insurance in countries with growing unemployment, a shrinking formal job sector, and a lack of social security programs or other safety nets. She debates the pros and cons of shifting the delivery of health services to the nongovernmental sector in the context of new concepts of the role of the state. Many of the schemes to privatize the purchase and sale of pharmaceuticals reverse decades of United Nations work challenging the power of the multinational drug industry. Turshen weighs these policy changes in light of the World Bank's eclipse of the World Health Organization as the premier UN health policy agency. Until now, no book has disputed the World Bank's plans to privatize health care in Africa. This is the first book-length analysis of policy changes in light of monetarism and globalization. Throughout the book, Turshen examines the implications of privatization for gender equity. She also provides a case study of Zimbabwe and comparative material from Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Her study makes a contribution to current debates on the impact of structural adjustment policies on health and the design of health services in the Third World.
Author |
: Maxwell Gregg Bloche |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0197737870 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780197737873 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Privatization of Health Care Reform by : Maxwell Gregg Bloche
A transformation in American health care delivery and financing is taking place, led by the private sector. This transformation presents legal and regulatory questions that have received little scholarly attention. These issues receive critical attention in this work.
Author |
: Joseph L. Scarpaci |
Publisher |
: Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105043176549 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Health Services Privatization in Industrial Societies by : Joseph L. Scarpaci
An international look at the theory and practice of health service privatization. The book examines the restructuring of health care systems and argues that conflicts implicit in privatization will limit the extent to which any government can dismantle its health care services.
Author |
: Jessica M. Mulligan |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2014-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814764992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814764991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unmanageable Care by : Jessica M. Mulligan
In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at an HMO and records what it's really like to manage care. Set at a health insurance company dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the health care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing and providing care on the island. Through interviews and participant observation, the book explores the everyday contexts in which market reforms were enacted. It follows privatization into the compliance department of a managed care organization, through the visits of federal auditors to a health plan, and into the homes of health plan members who recount their experiences navigating the new managed care system. In the 1990s and early 2000s, policymakers in Puerto Rico sold off most of the island's public health facilities and enrolled the poor, elderly and disabled into for-profit managed care plans. These reforms were supposed to promote efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and high quality care. Despite the optimistic promises of market-based reforms, the system became more expensive, not more efficient; patients rarely behaved as the expected health-maximizing information processing consumers; and care became more chaotic and difficult to access. Citizens continued to look to the state to provide health services for the poor, disabled, and elderly. This book argues that pro-market reforms failed to deliver on many of their promises. The health care system in Puerto Rico was dramatically transformed, just not according to plan.
Author |
: Chiara Cordelli |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2020-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691205755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691205752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Privatized State by : Chiara Cordelli
Why government outsourcing of public powers is making us less free Many governmental functions today—from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation—are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through private philanthropy rather than taxation. Can a privatized government rule legitimately? The Privatized State argues that it cannot. In this boldly provocative book, Chiara Cordelli argues that privatization constitutes a regression to a precivil condition—what philosophers centuries ago called "a state of nature." Developing a compelling case for the democratic state and its administrative apparatus, she shows how privatization reproduces the very same defects that Enlightenment thinkers attributed to the precivil condition, and which only properly constituted political institutions can overcome—defects such as provisional justice, undue dependence, and unfreedom. Cordelli advocates for constitutional limits on privatization and a more democratic system of public administration, and lays out the central responsibilities of private actors in contexts where governance is already extensively privatized. Charting a way forward, she presents a new conceptual account of political representation and novel philosophical theories of democratic authority and legitimate lawmaking. The Privatized State shows how privatization undermines the very reason political institutions exist in the first place, and advocates for a new way of administering public affairs that is more democratic and just.