Main description:

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.

Contents:

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