Title
American Health Care Blues: Blue Cross, Hmos and Pragmatic Reform Since 1960,Used
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Scholars have been writing about the health care industrys social transition to managed care for over twentyfive years. American Health Care Blues is the first book to examine the special role of Blue Cross in this transformation. It tells the story of how national trade association leaders of Americas loose confederation of independent Blue Cross plans, the worlds largest private health insurer, got their membership to diversify despite local plan reluctance and national organized medicine resistance into HMOs over a thirtyfiveyear period. This radical shift, amidst rapid erosion of the nonprofit ethos in our society in the 1980s, seemingly reconstructed the conservative "Blues" into a more viable enterprise. It also dangerously eclipsed their guiding principle: "community service." Making novel use of the sociology of organizations and pragmatic philosophy, Irwin Miller sheds new light on the nature and evolution of both the Blues and American health care voluntarism and reform. He shows how Walter McNerney, one of the primary health policy shapers over the past forty years, used ideological and utopian rhetoric to help move Blue Cross into HMO development. This case study of institutional and leadership behavior uses firsthand interviews, archival documents, oral histories, and other materials to present an unusually concrete and readable narrative account as to how health care leaders engage in creative institution building, or health care reform. Millers social history of Blue Cross also serves as a study in institutional conduct, providing insights into and explanations of leadership strategies for managing policy and institutional change. Fresh and revealing, and the book applies major theories of organization theory and dominant themes in pragmatic philosophy to shed new light on health care policy and reform. American Health Care Blues will be fascinating reading for sociologists, policymakers, economists, and professionals in the medical field. "Miller has told an interesting story from the perspective of John Dewey. It is a valuable contribution to the literature on leadership." Philip Selznick, University of California, Berkeley "This is a very interesting and unusual book, and provides great insight into the Blue Cross movement in American society. Altogether fascinating a wonderful bit of Americana." Odin W. Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Irwin Miller is professor of health administration at Governors State University. He was director of one of Americas first HMO projects, and did the policy planning for Blue Crosss nationwide HMO marketing network. He is also the author of The Health Care Survival Curve, which is also about HMOs.
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