Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation, and Compromise
Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation, and Negotiate Books
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Regulation shapes all aspects of America’s fragmented health care industry, from the flow of dollars to the communication between physicians and patients. It is the engine that translates broadcast policy into action. Even as the health and lives of patients, as well as nearly one-sixth of the national economy depend on its effectiveness, health care regulation in America is bewilderingly complex. Government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels direct parts of the industry, but hundreds of private organizations do so as well. Some of these overseers compete with one another, some conflict, and others collaborate. Their interaction is as vital to the provision of health care as are the laws and rules they implement.
Health Care Regulation in America is a guide to this regulatory maze. It succinctly recaps the past and bestow conflicts that have guided the oversight of each industry segment over the past hundred years and clarifies the structure of regulation today. To make the system comprehensible, this book also presents the sweep of regulatory policy in the context of the interests, values, goals, and issues that guide it. Chapters cover the administer of regulation and each key area of regulatory focus – professionals, institutions, financing arrangements, drugs and devices, broadcast health, business relationships, and research.
In a uniquely American way, the system thrives on confrontation between competing interests but survives by engendering negotiate. Robert Field shows that health care regulation is an inexorable force that nurtures as well as restricts the enterprise of American health care. For the student, practitioner, executive, policy analyst, or concerned citizen, this book is an invaluable guide to the policy, politics, and do of an industry that directly touches us all.
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This book was pathbreaking when it was wrttien in 1996. I am using it as part of an article I am writing on health care regulation today.
Rating: 5 / 5
Even as the title is Health Care Regulation in America, this book is about much more than how health care is regulated. It traces the complex interrelationships among providers, payers, consumers and patients from historical and policy perspectives. The prose is less that of a textbook novelist and more that of a storyteller. The success of this book – and its readability – come from the author’s clear understanding of the stakeholders caught up, their individual points of view and the conflicts between them. He is also not worried to express his own opinions, even as doing so in an evenhanded manner.
The book carefully reviews the regulation and policy conflicts that affect every component of the healthcare system as they relate to the care that patients really receive. Each section starts with historical context, establishes the relevant stakeholders and their interrelationships and finishes with a synthesis of relevant set of laws and health policy. The historical perspective is the key – in healthcare, as in many other areas, context helps understanding, and understanding affects relationships and the potential for future exchange. I strongly urge this book not only to students and professionals, but also to anyone with an interest in how our healthcare system really works and where the opportunities lie for real reform.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book provides a comprehensive look at the many facets of health care and the factors which influence the imposition of set of laws in an industry already over-regulated. Field includes a chapter examining the potential clash between ancient/bestow policy and additional regulatory issues impacted by increasing technology, baby boomers, HIPAA and the intersection between broadcast policy and private interests. A must read for those interested in health policy.
Rating: 5 / 5