The United States health care system under managed care: How the commodification of health care distorts ethics and threatens equity

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 393-411

  Churchill, Larry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Managed care; Market medicine; Risk rating; U.S. health care system

Indexed keywords

COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; MARKETING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

COST CONTROL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033370945     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009473424309     Document Type: Review

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