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- catalog abstract "Scholars have been writing about the health care industry's social transition to managed care for over twenty-five 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 America's loose confederation of independent Blue Cross plans, the world's largest private health insurer, got their membership to diversify - despite local plan reluctance and national organized medicine resistance - into HMOs over a thirty-five-year period. This radical shift, amidst rapid erosion of the non-profit 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.".
- catalog contributor b9832589.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: Taking Home the Meaning of the Past -- 2. Exhortation About a Radical Idea (1960s) -- 3. Action: Experimentation and Critical Decision (1970s) -- 4. Consequences: Establishment and Organizational Character (1980s-1995) -- 5. Reconstruction: Turning to the Future.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-143) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Scholars have been writing about the health care industry's social transition to managed care for over twenty-five 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 America's loose confederation of independent Blue Cross plans, the world's largest private health insurer, got their membership to diversify - despite local plan reluctance and national organized medicine resistance - into HMOs over a thirty-five-year period. This radical shift, amidst rapid erosion of the non-profit 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."".
- catalog extent "148 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1560002654 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1996 K-038".
- catalog subject "368.3/82/00973 20".
- catalog subject "Blue Cross Association History.".
- catalog subject "Blue Cross Association.".
- catalog subject "HG9396 .M55 1996".
- catalog subject "Health Maintenance Organizations United States.".
- catalog subject "Health Maintenance Organizations".
- catalog subject "Health insurance United States.".
- catalog subject "Health maintenance organizations United States.".
- catalog subject "Hospitalization insurance United States.".
- catalog subject "Insurance, Hospitalization United States History.".
- catalog subject "Insurance, Hospitalization United States.".
- catalog subject "Insurance, Hospitalization history".
- catalog subject "Medical policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Organizational Innovation United States.".
- catalog subject "Organizational Innovation.".
- catalog subject "W 160 AA1 M6a 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: Taking Home the Meaning of the Past -- 2. Exhortation About a Radical Idea (1960s) -- 3. Action: Experimentation and Critical Decision (1970s) -- 4. Consequences: Establishment and Organizational Character (1980s-1995) -- 5. Reconstruction: Turning to the Future.".
- catalog title "American health care blues : Blue Cross, HMOs, and pragmatic reform since 1960 / Irwin Miller.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".