Screen LibraryIntroduction to US health policy : the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America /
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Fourth edition/Johns Hopkins edition.. |
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| Carrier Form: | xvii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-426) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781421420721 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 1421420724 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9781421420714 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 1421420716 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | RA393 |
| CLC: | R199.712 |
| Call Number: | R199.712/B268-2/4th ed. |
| Contents: | The Affordable Care Act and the politics of health care reform -- Health, health care, and the market economy -- Health care as a reflection of underlying cultural values and institutions -- The health professions and the organization of health care -- Health insurance, HMOs, and the managed care revolution -- Medicare -- Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program -- The uninsured -- The increasing role of for-profit health care -- Pharmaceutical policy and the rising cost of prescription drugs -- Long-term care -- Factors other than health insurance that impede access to hea |