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Article: Profit Fever: The Drive to Corporatize Health Care and How to Stop It.
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- Multinational Monitor
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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By Charles Andrews Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995 160 pages. $11.95
The future of private health insurance, according to Charles Andrews, is bleak. If events continue on their current trajectory, the richest U.S. citizens will receive good care and be fully insured, while health care for the vast majority of citizens will worsen and cost more.
In developing this analysis, Profit Fever focuses on problems faced even by insured workers employed at some of the nation's largest and most profitable companies.
As health maintenance organizations try to squeeze more productivity out of doctors, patient visits are cut short, sometimes to no ...