Introduction to US health policy : the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America / Donald A. Barr, MD, Phd, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-426) and index.
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.
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