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Hospital city, health care nation : race, capital, and the costs of American health care /
"This book recasts the story of the health care system by emphasizing the economic and social importance of hospitals in American communities. While hospitals have become vital economic anchors in cities across the country, the spending that supports them has constrained possibilities for compr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Politics and culture in modern America.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Abbreviations Used in Text
- Introduction. Crisis in the Hospital City
- and the Health Care Nation
- PART I. BUILDING THE HOSPITAL CITY
- 1. The Public Foundations of the Hospital City
- 2. Urban Renewal in the Hospital City
- 3. Medicare, Hospitals, and "the Gold at Fort Knox"
- 4. Johns Hopkins in the Hospital Metropolis
- PART II. LIVING WITH THE HOSPITAL CITY
- 5. The Hospital City and the National Health Insurance Struggle
- 6. Wages, Jobs, and Cost in the Hospital City
- 7. Hospital Cost Control in Maryland
- 8. To Stay or Go, and How to Pay for It
- PART III. COSTS OF THE HOSPITAL CITY
- 9. "The Dream Shall Never Die" . . . but It May Be Compromised
- 10. "A New Emphasis on Market Strategies"
- 11. Markets, Medicaid, and Mergers
- Conclusion. Reform in the Hospital City
- and the Health Care Nation
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments