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E Freidson

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PubMed1978

The prospects for health services in the United States.

The enormous variety of diagnoses and prescriptions for dealing with the health care crisis in the United States can be simplified and clarified by reference to four logically distinct models of methods for organizing the production of health services. The assumptions of the free market model, the bureaucratic planning model, the professional model and the cooperative equalitarian model are described, as are the characteristic pathologies connected with the form those models take in reality. The intrinsically expansionist character of the manufacturing, service and consumer segments of the U.S. health system is described and the suggestion made that legislative attempts to contain costs will lead to increased bureaucratization primarily at the expense of the consumer.

Delivery of Health Care↗
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Toward the new pattern of medical practice.

As this article is being written, in the fall of 1993, we are waiting for the details of the President's plan for extending health insurance coverage of some kind to all members of the population while also containing costs. All observers, including practicing members of the medical profession itself, believe that a sharp break with the past is developing, most particularly a break with the old pattern of practice that flourished during the golden years between the end of World War II and the end of the 1960s, when the federal government made its first effort to control costs. In this article, I will discusses changes in the conditions of American medical practice that most observers can agree on. Then, I will summarize the major conceptions of the future shape of medical practice. I will conclude with my own view of critical issues in the constitution of practice, issues whose resolution depends not only on broad public policy initiatives, but also on the activities of physician executives within the medical community.

Forecasting↗