Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Common Abbreviations Used in the Text -- Introduction: Cost Containment and the Governance of Health Care -- 1. Health Care Governance in the British NHS to 1989: A Hybrid of Corporatism and State Hierarchy -- 2. The British Reforms: Markets, Managers, and the Challenge to Corporatism -- 3. The Corporatist Settlement in German National Health Insurance -- 4. The German Reforms: Grafting the Market onto Corporatism -- 5. The Autonomy of the Solo Practitioner in a Liberal Health Care System: The United States -- 6. Market Reform as "Unmanaged Competition": The United States -- Conclusion: The Limits of Markets in Health Care -- Appendix: Information on Interviews and Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.