![]() And GroupCare was founded in the late twentieth century to rationalize and economize care for middle-class patients and their employers. Hol圜are was founded by an order of nuns in the mid-twentieth century, offering spiritual comfort to the paying patient. PubliCare was founded in the late nineteenth century as an almshouse in order to address the needs of the destitute. Based on extensive interviews and observations across the three hospitals of one California city, the book explores the tensions embedded in the market for hospital care, how different hospitals manage these tensions, the historical trajectories driving disparities in contemporary hospital practice, and the perils and possibilities of various models of care.Īs Adam Reich shows, the book’s three featured hospitals could not be more different in background or contemporary practice. Selling Our Souls looks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market-hospital care. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical uncertainty about the services they offer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. ![]()
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