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The Home
Page gives an overview
of the issues and links to the start page for each
Section.
I suggest you scan the home page
first and then use the maps to explore the pages and find
what you want
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of initial web pages
which
- Issue a
Disclaimer
- Describe the History of
the site
- Give overviews,
descriptions of the health system, and address
theoretical considerations in coming to grips
with health care. This is one way to start
exploring the site especially for those
interested in the social processes
involved
- Describe my background
and my attempts to expose the problems and keep
corporations out of Australian Health Care. This
is another way of entering and exploring the
site which will be an entry point for those
interested in whistle blowing and dissent in
health care.
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Map
of the USA web pages.
The USA has the most mature health care
marketplace, the problems are maximally expressed
there, and US companies have opened branches across
the world. The USA provides the key to
understanding this marketplace. I urge anyone
interested in this system of providing health care
to read the main US page which gives an
overview of the market.
These pages give the
background to the US system. They describe and
analyse the fraud and patient misuse which occurred
across all sections of the US Health care
marketplace. This should be of prime interest to
anyone wanting to know why shareholder and
market controlled health care is such a threat to
citizens and to health systems across the world.
The pages
examine
- Joseph Califano's
disastrous 1986 market recipe for fixing health
care
- The conduct of the
giant hospital companies including Tenet
Healthcare (National Medical Enterprises),
Columbia/HCA (now simply HCA) and the
rehabilitation giant HealthSouth
- The Aged Care and
Subacute Care Chains including Sun Healthcare,
Beverly Healthcare, Vencor (now called Kindred
Healthcare), Integrated Health Services, Genesis
Health Ventures, Mariner Post Acute Network,
Extendicare, National Health Corporation,
Centennial Healthcare, and Guardian
Healthcare
- Managed
Care
- The Pharmaceutical
Industry
- The role of financial
institutions, particularly Citigroup
- System Processes and
System failures in the USA
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of the Australian web
pages
These describe the battle to introduce market
medicine and the way it has been resisted. This
should be of interest to Australians and to
other nationals interested in the globalisation
of market medicine.
Pages address
- Early warnings and
government policies
- The invasion by mostly
US Healthcare Multinationals whose practices are
described in the US section of the
site.
- The operation of
Australian hospital companies including Mayne
Health, Alpha Healthcare, Ramsay and
Healthscope.
- Privatisation of Public
Hospitals and Colocations
- The Corporatisation of
General Practice
- Problems in aged
care
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of the International Healthcare
pages
The international pages have been rather left
behind but there is some material about
- The international
expansion of corporate medicine.
- Health and world trade
agreements - (needs updating).
- The World Bank -
specifically a long criticism of a speech given
there by Graeme Samuel a market
theorist.
- Some very limited
material on
- Canada
- New
Zealand
- Europe
- Singapore
The criticism of Graeme
Samuel's speech highlights the contrasts between
the market view of health care and the views of
market critics including doctors and citizens. The
pages link to others on the site and some might
like to use these as another way to explore the
material.
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of the pages dealing with Corporate
Practices
I had been writing short pages about corporate
practices and had just written a whole series in
response to Graeme Samuel's extraordinary proposal
to the world bank. These did not link to the other
sections on individual corporations and I therefore
drew them together into this section. Some are not
as well researched as the other pages. They were my
gut responses to what I encountered and read. Some
were written in haste and annoyance and could do
with editing or rewriting. There is overlap and
repetition. This section needs a lot of
work.
In spite of this I think
there is enough material to stimulate thought if
only to disagree. It also provides another route
into the web site for those interested in the
matters covered.
Pages accessed
include
- General Reviews of
Corporate Practices, ideas, and
behaviour.
- Building on Ideas
: links to some more theoretical pages
and to pages which illustrate
theory.
- Words and Ideas in the
Marketplace : Pages on demand, need, quality,
altruism, probity, equity and similar
ideas.
- Trust, Professionalism
and the Attack on Professionalism : a critical
examination and defense applying the same frames
of analysis.
- Accountability,
Regulation, Surveillance, Retribution and
Accreditation : and why they fail
- Structural Aspects :
Pages look at stability, choice, not for profit
care, efficiency and integrated
systems.
- The Consumer : a few
pages which touch on the place of the patient
and the community
- Politics : Some general
comments on the close link between health care
corporations and political power.
- Whistleblowing and
Dissent : Pages I always wanted to write but
never found the time. What I wrote needs a lot
of reworking.
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Lessons
for the Future
: This is really the final page of the web site. In
order to make some suggestions for a different sort
of health system in the future I have looked at
what has happened and at the understandings
developed as I wrote all the web pages on this
site. I am not prescribing another ideological
solution but am suggesting the sort of road we
should be following in the light of our past
experiences and the understanding developed from
it.
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Update Page
This gives the dates when new pages and sections
were added and when significant upgrades were made.
It provides ready links to updates for those who
have used the site before.
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