Health at risk : America's ailing health system--and how to heal it /

In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hacker, Jacob S. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Series:Columbia/SSRC book.
Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk.
Subjects:
Health care reform > United States.
Medical policy > United States.
Health insurance.
National health insurance.
Health services accessibility.
Health care reform.
Insurance, Health
Health Services Accessibility
Insurance Coverage
Health Care Reform
National Health Programs
Services de santé > Réforme > États-Unis.
Politique sanitaire > États-Unis.
Assurance-maladie.
Services de santé > Accessibilité.
Services de santé > Réforme.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Medical policy.
Gesundheitswesen
Reform
Krankenversicherung
United States
United States.
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The transformation of American health insurance / Jill Quadagno & J. Brendan McKelvey
  • Uninsured in America: new realties, new risks / Katherine Swartz
  • Get sick, go broke / Deborah Thorne & Elizabeth Warren
  • Just how good is American medical care? / Elizabeth A. McGlynn, David Meltzer, & Jacob S. Hacker
  • The new push for American health security / Jacob S. Hacker.

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