Arnold Birenbaum

Putting Health Care on the National Agenda

Revised and Updated Edition

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Produktbeschreibung

This revised edition of Arnold Birenbaum's important book brings the work up to date through the end of 1994 and the close of the 103rd Congress. It offers a comprehensive, provocative, and completely new assessment of health care reform with a focus on financing and coverage. A fine primer.on the health care debate (JAMA), the book examines such topics as the changing doctor-patient relationship, the growth of managed care, the rise and decline of hospitals, American business and health benefits, and the uninsured in America. This new edition takes particular heed to the failure of health care reform in 1994. In responding to the first edition, Victor Sidel, M.D., former president of the American Public Health Association, called it, "A wonderfully far-ranging, meticulously documented, insightfully analyzed and remarkably well written challenge to professionals, patients, and community members to work for effective change in a bizarre, expensive, inefficient, and often unresponsive medical care system."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9780275951634
• ISBN-10: 0275951634
• Artikelnr.: 25565715

Autorenporträt

Arnold Birenbaum

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction A System in Need of Direction Dissatisfaction
Widespread--Our Leaders Receive a Wake-Up Call The Changing Relationship
with Your Doctor The Growth of Managed Care and the Backlash The Challenge
to Providers The Rise and Decline of Hospitals American Business and Health
Benefits The Uninsured, the Uninsurable, and the Fear of Falling Current
Needs Vulnerable People Long-Term Care People with AIDS The Right to Die
Caring for the Future Northern Exposure: The Canadian Experiment Taking
Health Care Off the National Agenda--The Failure to Answer the Wake-Up Call
References Index