For Your Bookshelf: New Book Details Failure of Health Care Marketplace and Managed Care

A former champion of market-driven healthcare practices now condemns them. Private medical marketplace forces, long held out as the only alternative to a government-controlled system, have aggravated rather than alleviated the problems plaguing the U.S. health care system, according to a new book, ``Oxymorons: The Myth of a US Health Care System,'' written by medical economist J.D. Kleinke and published today by Jossey-Bass.