Screen LibraryIntroduction to US health policy : the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America /
"This book is about the US health care system. It introduces the various organizations and institutions that make our system work (or not work, as the case may be). It identifies historical forces that have brought us to our current state of health care and examines the way in which the need of...
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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| Summary: |
"This book is about the US health care system. It introduces the various organizations and institutions that make our system work (or not work, as the case may be). It identifies historical forces that have brought us to our current state of health care and examines the way in which the need of the American people for health care services is sometimes met and sometimes not"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 526 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-513) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781421446462 1421446464 |
| Index Number: | RA393 |
| CLC: | R199.712 |
| Call Number: | R199.712/B268-2/5th 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 health care -- Key policy issues impacting the direction of health care reform -- Epilogue/prologue to health care reform in America. |