Market-Based Health Care

Market-Based Health Care defines for students the challenges, arguments and politics behind the concept of consumer-driven health care

Market-Based Health Care defines for students the challenges, arguments and politics behind the concept of consumer-driven health care including what it would look like if the business sector would do a better job of organizing our health care arrangements and remove any governmental components built into the system. As a sociologist interested in health care, Budrys focuses on the impact our health care arrangements have on not just an economic level but how they affect people as well. This is an overwhelmingly complex topic and debate and one that is discussed widely in the classroom. This will be the first text to clearly present the market-based health care model and how doctors, medical insurance and “big pharma” play a role in its development.

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 The Market-Based Health Care Model

3 The Market for Health Insurance

4 Government Intervention and Health Insurance

5 Doctors

6 Hospitals

7 Pharmaceuticals

8 Health Sector Occupations and Organizations

9 Market-Based Health Care: The Model and the Reality

Epilogue: Some Reflections on Solutions

Bibliography

Index