Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-429) and index.
1. The road to corporate medicine -- 2. The cost of competition : an overview -- 3. For-profit hospitals : a flaw in the business model? -- 4. Not-for-profit hospitals : "no margin, no mission"? -- 5. When more care is not better care -- 6. "Too little, too late" : the cost of rationing care -- 7. Doing less and doing it right : is pay for performance the answer? -- 8. Device makers, drugmakers, and the FDA -- Where we are now : everyone out of the pool.
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An analysis of the health care industry describes the impact of market-driven health care on modern medicine, examining the waste in the system, the use of unnecessary tests and unwanted end-of-life treatments, and the emphasis on profits.