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Crisis In America's Health Insurance Industry
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1992
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-1215-6 (ISBN)
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-1215-6 (ISBN)
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Investigates the causes of the health insurance industry's problems in the United States and analyzes the social effects of the growing crisis.
The private health insurance industry, holding more than half the assets of America's banks, is unable to provide nearly 40 million Americans with basic health care. Relying on data from a wide range of publications about this secretive industry, Lawrence D. Weiss investigates the causes of the industry's problems and analyzes the social effects of the growing crisis. The causes include excessive overhead costs, widespread inefficiency, and exemptions from antimonopoly regulations; the social effects include small businesses' inabilities to provide adequate coverage for their employees, the reluctance of many carriers to insure certain social groups, and the disproportionate burden on minorities. Addressing these dilemmas, Lawrence Weiss offers an analysis of the health insurance crisis in America.
The private health insurance industry, holding more than half the assets of America's banks, is unable to provide nearly 40 million Americans with basic health care. Relying on data from a wide range of publications about this secretive industry, Lawrence D. Weiss investigates the causes of the industry's problems and analyzes the social effects of the growing crisis. The causes include excessive overhead costs, widespread inefficiency, and exemptions from antimonopoly regulations; the social effects include small businesses' inabilities to provide adequate coverage for their employees, the reluctance of many carriers to insure certain social groups, and the disproportionate burden on minorities. Addressing these dilemmas, Lawrence Weiss offers an analysis of the health insurance crisis in America.
Lawrence D. Weiss is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alaska at Anchorage.
Placing the social fact of private health insurance in perspective; historical development and current profile of the commercial health insurance industry; creating the uninsured; employer cost-cutting strategies; fraud and deception; price fixing and conspiracy; insolvencies - insurance companies that cannot pay claims; the inefficient private sector; a political question - accommodation; compromise or struggle?; summary and conclusions.
Sprache | englisch |
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Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Versicherungsbetriebslehre | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8133-1215-9 / 0813312159 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8133-1215-6 / 9780813312156 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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