Curing The Crisis
Options For America's Health Care
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2019
Book
Hardback
206 pages
978-0-367-01621-0 (ISBN)
Description
With private health insurance costs averaging over $300 per month, per person-and with 36 million Americans lacking coverage of any sort-it is easy to understand why health care has captured the public imagination as the domestic policy issue of the 1990s. Americans spend well over $800 billion a year on health care, yet we are neglecting ba
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-01621-0 (9780367016210)
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Person
Michael D. Reagan is professor emeritus at the University of California-Riverside and has authored numerous publications on American government and politics including Regulation: The Politics of Policy, The New Federalism, Science and the Federal Patron, The Managed Economy, and articles on health care in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Content
A Snapshot of Health Care Delivery Today -- Perspectives and Perceptions -- The Changing Profile of U.S. Health Care -- Understanding the Problems -- What Are the Problems? -- What's Causing the Problems? -- What Are the Options? -- How Do We Get Coverage for Everyone? -- Cutting Costs: Piecemeal Approaches -- Cutting Costs: Overall Approaches -- Components of an Achievable Better System -- Elements for an Optimal Health Care Plan