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Background : physicians choose the insurance company model, late nineteenth century-1940s
Federal reform politics : implanting the insurance company model, 1945-1960
Sclerotic institution : the declining power of organized physicians and the AMA
Organized for profit : the hidden influence of insurance companies and the HIAA
The conflicted construction of Blue Shield : caught between Blue Cross and the AMA
Corporate health care : from cost controls to medical decision-making
The politics of medicare, 1957-1965
Epilogue : the limits of "comprehensive" reform, 1965-2010.
Federal reform politics : implanting the insurance company model, 1945-1960
Sclerotic institution : the declining power of organized physicians and the AMA
Organized for profit : the hidden influence of insurance companies and the HIAA
The conflicted construction of Blue Shield : caught between Blue Cross and the AMA
Corporate health care : from cost controls to medical decision-making
The politics of medicare, 1957-1965
Epilogue : the limits of "comprehensive" reform, 1965-2010.