BookDonald A. Barr.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.