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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b10433129.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and i dex.".
- catalog description "The centrality of health benefits in labor contracts -- The early history of health plans for workers -- Bargaining for benefits: the fund and the transformation of industrial relations in the coal industry -- Designing the fund -- The delivery of physician care under the fund's managed care initiatives -- Hospital care: the Miners Memorial Hospital Association -- External challenges to the operation of the fund -- The transformation and dismantling of the fund.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 212 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801433924 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cornell studies in industrial and labor relations ; no. 31".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, NY : ILR Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1998 C-568".
- catalog subject "362.1/088/622 21".
- catalog subject "Coal Mining United States.".
- catalog subject "Collective Bargaining United States.".
- catalog subject "Collective bargaining Mining industry United States.".
- catalog subject "Health insurance United States.".
- catalog subject "Insurance Benefits United States.".
- catalog subject "Insurance, Health United States.".
- catalog subject "Managed care plans (Medical care) History.".
- catalog subject "Miners Medical care United States.".
- catalog subject "RA413.7.M55 K73 1997".
- catalog subject "United Mine Workers of America. Welfare and Retirement Fund.".
- catalog subject "W 185 AA1 K8f 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "The centrality of health benefits in labor contracts -- The early history of health plans for workers -- Bargaining for benefits: the fund and the transformation of industrial relations in the coal industry -- Designing the fund -- The delivery of physician care under the fund's managed care initiatives -- Hospital care: the Miners Memorial Hospital Association -- External challenges to the operation of the fund -- The transformation and dismantling of the fund.".
- catalog title "From company doctors to managed care : the United Mine Workerʾs noble experiment / Ivana Krajcinovic.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".