Differential Diagnoses : A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France /

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Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dutton, Paul V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Medical policy.
Medical care.
Health insurance.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
Health insurance > France > History > 20th century.
Health insurance > United States > History > 20th century.
Medical care > France > History > 20th century.
Medical care > United States > History > 20th century.
Medical policy > France > History > 20th century.
Medical policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Social medicine > France > History > 20th century.
Social medicine > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
France.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Common ideals, divergent nations
  • Health insurance and the rise of private-practice medicine, 1915-1930
  • Health security, the state, and civil society, 1930-1940
  • Challenges and change during the Second World War, 1940-1945
  • Labor's quest for health security, 1945-1960
  • The choice of public or private, 1950-1970
  • Cost control moves to the fore, 1970-2000
  • Hospitals and the difficult art of health care reform, 1980-present
  • Les jeux sont faits? : 2000-present.

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