Health Insurance Doctor / / Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Armstrong, Barbara Nachtrieb,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1939
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2219
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

Violent debate of socialized medicine and health insurance in the United States is punctuated regularly by emotional appeals to the experience of other countries. "Look at England," cries one of the disputants. "Ah! But look at Denmark and France," retorts his opponent. Actually, few Americans have more than the most casual knowledge of the health insurance schemes which have been adopted abroad. Never before has it been possible to obtain in English a complete and objective statement of the work of the Health Insurance Doctor in these three democracies. What is the average income of a doctor under one of these plans? What are the precise rates for services? What office hours? Does a political bureaucracy control medical practice? How many patients may a practitioner carry? What are the rules about free prescription of drugs? How much "paper work" and reporting is required of the doctor? What is the relation between health insurance and relief? And-most important-what do the doctors themselves think of the idea? All of these and hundreds of other vital questions are answered fully, dispassionately, and with amazing clarity in The Health Insurance Doctor. The author is professor of law at the University of California and master of a straightforward style which presents vividly the issues of health insurance confronting a modern democracy. No legislator, welfare worker, medical practitioner, hospital executive, relief administrator, or interested layman can afford to miss this remarkable book.Originally published in 1939.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Part I: Great Britain -- Chapter I. Summary of the British Health Insurance Scheme -- Chapter II. Health Insurance Medical Benefit Medical Treatment -- Chapter III. The Health Insurance Doctor -- Chapter IV. Remuneration of Health Insurance Doctors -- Chapter V. The Work Involved in Health Insurance Practice -- Chapter VI. The Regional Medical Staff -- Chapter VII. Medical Attitude Toward Certification Responsibilities -- Chapter VIII. Disciplinary Procedure Affecting the Health Insurance Doctor -- Chapter IX. Attitude of the British Medical Association and Panel Doctors -- Chapter X. Hospitals and the Health Insurance Program -- Chapter XI. Some Alternatives to the Health Insurance Service Sponsored by Minority Medical Opinion -- Part II: Denmark -- Chapter XII. Summary of the Danish Health Insurance Scheme -- Chapter XIII. Health Insurance Medical Benefit -- Chapter XIV. The Health Insurance Doctor in Copenhagen -- Chapter XV. The Health Insurance Doctor in Non-Metropolitan Denmark -- Chapter XVI. Paper Work Involved in Danish Health Insurance Practice -- Chapter XVII. Disciplinary Control of the Physician -- Chapter XVIII. Attitude of the Medical Profession -- Part III: France -- Chapter XIX. Summary of French Health Insurance Scheme -- Chapter XX. Health Insurance Medical Benefit -- Chapter XXI. The "Ticket Modérateur" -- Chapter XXII. The Growth of the Dispensary and the Mutualist "Clinique" -- Chapter XXIII. Responsibilities of the French Health Insurance Doctor -- Chapter XXIV. "Contrôle Médical" -- Chapter XXV. "Contrôle Technique" -- Chapter XXVI. Examples of Special Local Schemes Prompted by the Social Insurance Law -- Chapter XXVII. Attitude of the French Medical Profession -- Postlude -- Index -- Backmatter