Industry’s Voice in Health Policy

✍ Scribed by Willis B. Goldbeck (auth.), Richard H. Egdahl M.D., Ph.D., Diana Chapman Walsh M.S., Willis B. Goldbeck (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 141
• Series: Industry and Health Care 7
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is a pleasure to introduce this special volume of the Industry and Health Care Series. It is special for the best of reasons: it is primarily written by industry representatives. Using the Washing­ ton Business Group on Health 1978 Annual Meeting as its starting point, this volume captures the feelings, concerns, and experience of many who are leading industry's increasingly significant presence in health policy and economics. While many of the largest companies achieve more sophisticated levels of involvement, the fact remains that most companies of all sizes and especially the smaller businesses either will not or cannot devote the time or resources to become active participants. We hope this volume will help demonstrate the value of even one person's commit­ ment. Although our organizational focus is Washington, the WBGH rec­ ognizes that, in the long run, the quality and cost of the health care most Americans receive will be-and should be-determined at the local level. To let this happen without industry involvement would represent an abdication of both responsibility and opportunity. Fortunately, we see a growth of industry involvement, growth not just in terms of numbers but also in terms of the scope of activities. • Recognizing that the key to changing provider behavior is to change the economic incentives, emanating from the major payers, em- vi Preface ployers are subjecting their employee benefit plans to the most com­ plete scrutiny in many years.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Challenge to Industry....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
President Carter’s Principles for Health Care Cost Containment and National Health Insurance....Pages 19-27
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Initiatives in HMO Development and Health Promotion....Pages 28-40
Congressional Health Policy: The Years Ahead....Pages 41-51
Competition or Regulation: The Case for Antitrust Enforcement....Pages 52-60
The States and Health Care Costs....Pages 61-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Private Sector Cost Containment Initiatives....Pages 75-87
Labor Looks at National Health Insurance....Pages 88-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Industry in Local Health Planning....Pages 105-117
Industry in Community-Level Coalitions....Pages 118-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Industry as Change Agent....Pages 125-131
Back Matter....Pages 133-136

✦ Subjects

Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine