Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Medicine and the MarketUnlike in countries with nationalized or restrictively regulated health care systems, the United States' system is embedded in and based on a capitalist, market-based model.Market forces, including the profit motives of corporate interests such as insurance and pharmaceutical companies, have a significant role in shaping the provision of medicine in the United States.They have significant effects on individual practitioners-in their medical education years and in their practice years-and on patients-in their ability to access, afford, and choose care-as well as policy, through industry lobbying efforts.Our contributors examine and elucidate these effects in the August 2015 issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics.
Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic
Author: Hannah L. Kushnick
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2890638766