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By Jessica M. Mulligan

ISBN-10: 0814724914

ISBN-13: 9780814724910

In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan is going to paintings at an HMO and documents what it’s quite prefer to deal with care. Set at a medical health insurance corporation dubbed Acme, this e-book chronicles how the privatization of the wellbeing and fitness care process in Puerto Rico reworked the event of having access to and supplying care at the island. via interviews and player statement, the ebook explores the standard contexts during which marketplace reforms have been enacted. It follows privatization into the compliance division of a controlled care association, during the visits of federal auditors to a wellbeing and fitness plan, and into the houses of well-being plan participants who recount their studies navigating the recent controlled care system.
 
In the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, policymakers in Puerto Rico offered off many of the island’s public well-being amenities and enrolled the bad, aged and disabled into for-profit controlled care plans. those reforms have been speculated to advertise potency, cost-effectiveness, and prime quality care. regardless of the confident gives you of market-based reforms, the procedure turned dearer, no more effective; sufferers not often behaved because the anticipated health-maximizing info processing shoppers; and care grew to become extra chaotic and tough to entry. electorate endured to seem to the kingdom to supply health and wellbeing companies for the bad, disabled, and aged. This publication argues that pro-market reforms didn't convey on lots of their promises.The health and wellbeing care procedure in Puerto Rico used to be dramatically reworked, simply now not in response to plan.

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Furthermore, managed care in Medicare costs 13% more to provide than traditional fee-for-service Medicare (Zarabozo and Harrison 2009, W55). The irony is that programs that were aimed at streamlining and downsizing government involvement in the provision of health care had the opposite effect. As various anthropological studies have shown (see, for example, Horton et al. 2001; Lamphere 2005; Stan 2007; Waitzkin et al. 2002), the process of privatizing health care is often fraught with contradiction and unintended consequences.

It is important to note that privatization does not eliminate government, but rather it changes its form (Barry et al. 1996, 14; Ferguson and Gupta 2002; Shore and Wright 1997, 28). When health programs were privatized in Puerto Rico and the United States, the government was still concerned with how patients were cared for and how public money was spent. So regulatory agencies employed techniques for “governing from afar” like audits and performance measurement (Clarke 2004; Rose 1996, 43) that allowed oversight to continue in an altered form.

This time writing about himself in the third person, Ashford went on to claim that his discovery of the hookworm parasite was significant for all of the Americas: He began to think geographically. Of course he must be very prudent, but—the anemia pandemic in Puerto Rico could not be limited to this one little island. It was all through these latitudes. It must be. He had heard of the indolence of Mexicans, of Central Americans, of people everywhere in the old Spanish Main. He could not say that their indolence was caused by disease.

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