Opportunities in Insurance Careers (Vgm Opportunities Series (Cloth))
by Robert M. Schrayer, Mark Rowh
Optional Federal Chartering and Regulation of Insurance Companies (Aei Studies on Financial Market Deregulation)
by Peter J. Wallison (Editor)
"Almost since it began, the insurance industry has been regulated at the state level. Its members were wary of federal mandates and federal regulation that would restrict their mobility and impose higher costs. Periodically, Washington policymakers would propose fedral intervention, but the states and the industry always successfully fended it off.
"However, in response to heightened competition from other finacial services firms and the need to function efficiently in the U.S. and global economies, the larger insurance companies and various insurance industry groups have become keenly interested in the concept of fedreal chartering and regulation. In this unique volume, Peter J. Wallison assembles the viewpoints of representatives across the spectrum of the insurance industry, and among the many stakeholders involved, to examine the pros and cons of the issue."
Oxymorons:
The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System
by J. D. Kleinke
"In this impassioned and often vitriolic book - a follow-up to the author's bestselling Bleeding Edge: The Business of Health Care in the New Century - U.S. health care industry expert J.D. Kleinke offers an unflinching look at our broken health care system. Throughout the book, Kleinke - who was once a vocal advocate of the managed health care system - explains what went wrong and attempts to answer such perplexing questions as:
- Who's in charge of the American health care system?
- How does managed care work . . . or not work?
- Why have hospitals become so complex?
- What are the prospects for reform?
- Does the Internet change anything?
- Can we solve the growing problem of the uninsured?"
