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Marketplace Medicine

The Rise of the For-profit Hospital Chains

by David E. Lindorff ยท 1992

ISBN: 0553075527 9780553075526

Category: Business & Economics / General

Page count: 316

The United States healthcare system is in crisis: For-profit corporations have taken over almost 25 percent of the nation's hospitals, and they now determine the quality, cost and availability of health-care for millions. Filled with startling case histories, this report exposes these corporations as a key factor in the decline of health-care.