From Company Doctors to Managed Care : : The United Mine Workers' Noble Experiment / / Ivana Krajcinovic.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Krajcinovic, Ivana,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.) :; 13 tables, 16 charts/graphs, 4 maps

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. 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Centrality of Health Benefits in Labor Contracts -- CHAPTER 1. The Early History of Health Plans for Workers -- CHAPTER 2. Bargaining for Benefits: The Fund and the Transformation of Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry -- CHAPTER 3. Designing the Fund -- CHAPTER 4. The Delivery of Physician Care under the Fund's Managed Care Initiatives -- CHAPTER 5. Hospital Care: The Miners Memorial Hospital Association -- CHAPTER 6.External Challenges to the Operation of the Fund -- CHAPTER 7. The Transformation and Dismantling of the Fund -- Appendix: Data Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index