BookThomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach.
Contents:
Introduction: the paradox of excess and deprivation
Paying for health care
Access to health care
Paying health care providers
How health care is organized-I: Primary, secondary, and tertiary care
How health care is organized-II: Health delivery systems
Health care workforce and the education of health professionals
Painful versus painless cost control
Mechanisms for controlling costs
Quality of health care
Prevention of illness
Long-term care
Medical ethics and rationing of health care
Health care in four nations
Health care reform and national health insurance
Conflict and change in America's health care system
Conclusion: tensions and challenges
Questions and discussion topics.