Volume 44, Number 10 · June 12, 1997
The Medicine in Our Future
By Andrew Hacker
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ESSAY
Health Against Wealth: HMOs and the Breakdown of Medical Trust
by George Anders
Houghton Mifflin, 299 pp., $24.95
Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care
by David J. Rothman
Oxford University Press/Twentieth Century Fund, 189 pp., $24.95
Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care?
by Richard A. Epstein
Addison-Wesley, 503 pp., $27.50
The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security
by Jacob S. Hacker
Princeton University Press, 239 pp., $39.95
Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics
by Theda Skocpol
Norton, 230 pp., $27.50
The Price of Life: The Future of American Health Care
by Robert H. Blank
Columbia University Press, 215 pp., $29.50
Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry
by Regina E. Herzlinger
Addison-Wesley, 379 pp., $25.00
Ten years ago, 95 percent of the Americans who had health coverage at their place of work received close to full repayment for services provided by doctors and hospitals personally chosen by themselves. Today, half of them no longer have that freedom; they must use the doctors provided by the health maintenance organizations that their employers have selected. 'Faster than almost anyone expected,' George Anders says in Health Against Wealth, 'managed care has become the de facto national health policy of the United States.' And 'managed' means that plans specify the scope of treatments:
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