TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Regulatory Reform and the Disruption of Health Care A1 - Christensen, Clayton M. A1 - Grossman, Jerome H. A1 - Hwang, Jason Y1 - 2018 N1 - T2 - The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care AB - The quintessential con artist of the nineteenth century was the snake oil peddler who sold sham elixirs to vulnerable patients—and it was the specter of his parasitical existence that ultimately spawned the Food and Drug Administration.1 The FDA's essential oversight of certain elements of the health-care industry was just the beginning of regulatory influence, however. The tentacles of governmental control now stretch throughout America's health-care system in a deep, tangled, and pervasive way—to the point that health care isn't private enterprise in the sense that automobiles, semiconductors, and strategy consulting are private. Indeed, much of the current public discourse on health-care reform focuses on whether private industry can be expected to fix the current system—or whether the government will have to become even more deeply involved. In many other economically advanced countries, of course, the government is the health-care system. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/07 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1150326737 ER -