Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "Free-Market" Health Care

Field, Robert I.

ISBN 10: 0199746753 / ISBN 13: 9780199746750

Published by Oxford University Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "Free-Market" Health Care
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199746753
• ISBN 13: 9780199746750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Underlying America's robust private health care industry is an indispensible partner that has guided and supported it for over half a century: the government. This book demonstrates how government initiatives created American health care as we know it today and places the Obama plan in its true historical and political context.

About the Author

Robert I. Field is Professor of Law and Professor of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University and Lecturer in Health Care Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on the American health care system and has authored a comprehensive overview of health care regulation, Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation and Compromise (also published by Oxford University Press). He has also practiced health law and worked in the management of a major academic health system. He is a frequent media commentator on health care issues and has been quoted by NPR, CNN, ABC News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and numerous other outlets. He writes a regular blog on health policy for The Philadelphia Inquirer entitled "The Field Clinic."