Prologue: The Rationale for the Managed Care Revolution -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Good Doctor: What Medical Care Should Be -- 3. From Hippocrates to "Providers": How Healers and Caregivers Became Product Sellers -- 4. Captured by Stealth: How American Business Stole Medicine -- 5. Has Managed Care Succeeded?: Slap! We Needed That. Or Did We? -- 6. What's Wrong with Managed Care and Government Control of Medicine? -- 7. More Ways in Which Managed Care Impairs Your Relationship with Your Doctor -- 8. Privacy -- 9. Does Managed Care Fulfill Its Promise to Preserve Quality of Care While Reducing Cost? -- 10. How Medicine Is Affected by Legal and Ethical Trends in Practice -- 11. How Managed Care Bypasses, Controls, and Limits Doctors to Save Money and Why You Pay the Price -- 12. Issues -- 13. The Lure of Single-Payer Health Plans and Why They Will Not Work Here -- 14. A Better Way -- App. How to Make the Most of an HMO, If You Must Be in One
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index
