American Health Care Blues: Blue Cross, Hmos, And Pragmatic Reform Since 1960; Author: Miller, Irwin; Paperback

Author: Miller, Irwin
Paperback
148 pages
Published: April 2000
Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0765807238

American Health Care Blues is the first book in over thirty years to examine the special role of Blue Cross in the transformation of the health care industry to managed care. It tells the story of how national trade association leaders of America's loose confederation of independent Blue Cross plans, the world's largest private health insurer, got their membership to diversify -- despite local plan reluctance and national organized medicine resistance -- into HMOs.An examination of the role of Blue Cross in the transformation of the American health-care industry to managed care. It tells the story of how national trade association leaders of America's loose confederation of independent Blue Cross plans, got their membership to diversify into HMOs.