Christy Ford Chapin is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her areas of research include political, economic, and business history, as well as the history of capitalism. A key question driving her research is how the blending of public and private power has created a distinctive form of capitalism - American capitalism. Chapin has won numerous awards to support her work, including the John E. Rovensky Fellowship in American Business and Economic History and a Miller Center for Public Affairs Fellowship. Her work has been published in Studies in American Political Development, the Journal of Policy History, Enterprise and Society, and the Business History Review.
Introduction
1. Background: physicians choose the insurance company model, late nineteenth century to 1940s
2. Federal reform politics: implanting the insurance company model, 1945-60
3. Sclerotic institution: the declining power of organized physicians and the AMA
4. Organized for profit: the hidden influence of insurance companies and the HIAA
5. The conflicted construction of Blue Shield: caught between Blue Cross and the AMA
6. Corporate health care: from cost controls to medical decision making
7. The politics of Medicare, 1957-65
8. Epilogue: the limits of 'comprehensive' reform, 1965-2010.
