Armstrong Health Insurance Doctor

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7768-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Violent debate of socialized medicine and health insurance in the United States is punctuated regularly by emotional appeals to the experience of other countries. "Look at England," cries one of the disputants. “Ah! But look at Denmark and France,” retorts his opponent. Actually, few Americans have more than the most casual knowledge of the health insurance schemes which have been adopted abroad. Never before has it been possible to obtain in English a complete and objective statement of the work of the Health Insurance Doctor in these three democracies. What is the average income of a doctor under one of these plans? What are the precise rates for services? What office hours? Does a political bureaucracy control medical practice? How many patients may a practitioner carry? What are the rules about free prescription of drugs? How much “paper work” and reporting is required of the doctor? What is the relation between health insurance and relief? And-most important-what do the doctors themselves think of the idea? All of these and hundreds of other vital questions are answered fully, dispassionately, and with amazing clarity in The Health Insurance Doctor. The author is professor of law at the University of California and master of a straightforward style which presents vividly the issues of health insurance confronting a modern democracy. No legislator, welfare worker, medical practitioner, hospital executive, relief administrator, or interested layman can afford to miss this remarkable book.

Originally published in 1939.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Armstrong, Barbara Nachtrieb

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Foreword, pg. vii
Contents, pg. ix
Chapter I. Summary of the British Health Insurance Scheme, pg. 3
Chapter II. Health Insurance Medical Benefit Medical Treatment, pg. 10
Chapter III. The Health Insurance Doctor, pg. 17
Chapter IV. Remuneration of Health Insurance Doctors, pg. 32
Chapter V. The Work Involved in Health Insurance Practice, pg. 46
Chapter VI. The Regional Medical Staff, pg. 53
Chapter VII. Medical Attitude Toward Certification Responsibilities, pg. 58
Chapter VIII. Disciplinary Procedure Affecting the Health Insurance Doctor, pg. 62
Chapter IX. Attitude of the British Medical Association and Panel Doctors, pg. 75
Chapter X. Hospitals and the Health Insurance Program, pg. 88
Chapter XI. Some Alternatives to the Health Insurance Service Sponsored by Minority Medical Opinion, pg. 95
Chapter XII. Summary of the Danish Health Insurance Scheme, pg. 101
Chapter XIII. Health Insurance Medical Benefit, pg. 111
Chapter XIV. The Health Insurance Doctor in Copenhagen, pg. 119
Chapter XV. The Health Insurance Doctor in Non-Metropolitan Denmark, pg. 139
Chapter XVI. Paper Work Involved in Danish Health Insurance Practice, pg. 147
Chapter XVII. Disciplinary Control of the Physician, pg. 150
Chapter XVIII. Attitude of the Medical Profession, pg. 157
Chapter XIX. Summary of French Health Insurance Scheme, pg. 165
Chapter XX. Health Insurance Medical Benefit, pg. 173
Chapter XXI. The “Ticket Modérateur”, pg. 199
Chapter XXII. The Growth of the Dispensary and the Mutualist “Clinique”, pg. 207
Chapter XXIII. Responsibilities of the French Health Insurance Doctor, pg. 211
Chapter XXIV. “Contrôle Médical”, pg. 215
Chapter XXV. “Contrôle Technique”, pg. 225
Chapter XXVI. Examples of Special Local Schemes Prompted by the Social Insurance Law, pg. 236
Chapter XXVII. Attitude of the French Medical Profession, pg. 248
Postlude, pg. 252
Index, pg. 259
Backmatter, pg. 265