Controversy about American Hospitals - Paperback

by Rogers J. Hollingsworth (Author)

This is a definitive, data-driven investigation into one of America's most polarizing industries, where historian Rogers J. Hollingsworth traces a century of controversy over hospital ownership, funding, and behavior, dissecting the fierce debates between for-profit, public, and not-for-profit hospitals on cost, efficiency, quality, and access to care, offering an essential, clear-eyed history for anyone seeking to understand how the modern US healthcare system came to be.