Private Regulation of American Health Care

Betty Leyerle is Professor of Sociology and Human Services at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. She is the author of Moving and Shaking American Medicine: The Structure of a Socioeconomic Transformation (1984). Dr. Leyerle holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the City University of New York.

• Introduction: Managed Competition—The Private Regulation of American Health Care; Chapter 1 The Twenty-Year-Old Crisis; Chapter 2 The Basic Components of Private Regulation; Chapter 3 The Evolution of Private Regulation; Chapter 4 Managing Health; Chapter 5 Managing “Quality” through Outcomes Research; Chapter 6 Conclusions;