October 2004 - VOLUME 25 - NUMBER 10

 

Medicine and Markets


Cover: (c) Kirk Anderson


FEATURES

A People's Health System:
Venezuela Works to Bring Healthcare to the Excluded

-- By Peter Maybarduk

Managed Care Goes Global:
Latin America Confronts the Multinational Health Insurers

-- By Celia Iriart, Howard Waitzkin and Emerson Merhy

 
DEPARTMENTS

Behind the Lines

Editorial
The Right to Healthcare

The Front
Justice DeLay-ed
Flu Profiteers

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Interviews
Nursing Power: California Nurses’ Collective Advocacy for Patients and Nurses
An Interview with Rosee Ann DeMoro
(Sidebar: Skyrocketing HMO Profits)

Physicians Rx For An Ailing Healthcare System
An Interview with Claudia Fegan

NHS, Inc.: The Accelerating Marketization of the UK's National Health Service
An Interview with Allyson Pollock

Names in the News

Resources