From company doctors to managed care : the United Mine Workers' noble experiment / Ivana Krajcinovic.

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From company doctors to managed care : the United Mine Workers' noble experiment / Ivana Krajcinovic.

9781501722042 (electronic bk.)
1501722042 (electronic bk.)
0801433924
9780801433924
9780801478444

Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, 1997.

English

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RA413.7.M55 K73 1997eb

"The Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is widely acknowledged as the most innovative effort at group health care in the United States in the twentieth century. Ivana Krajcinovic describes the establishment, operation, and demise of the fund that brought mining families from the backwater to the forefront of medical care in less than a decade. The UMWA was one of the first unions to take advantage of conditions created by World War II to bargain for employer-financed health benefits. Spurning convention, the UMWA not only retained control of health benefits but also utilized then-unorthodox managed-care principles in arranging for the care of its members. Perhaps even more remarkable, the union designed the Fund to care for a beneficiary group with extremely high demands. Initially poor and neglected, miners were encumbered by the additional health burdens of a hazardous industry. Krajcinovic analyzes the success of the Fund over nearly three decades in providing high-quality cost-effective care to miners and their families. She also explains the irony of its dismantlement at the very moment when its innovations gained currency among mainstream commercial plans."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index.

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Cornell studies in industrial and labor relations ; no. 31.

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