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Introduction to U.S. health policy : the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America / Donald A. Barr.

By: Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016Edition: Fourth editionDescription: p. ; cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421420714 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1421420716 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781421420721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1421420724 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Introduction to United States health policy
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10973 23
LOC classification:
  • RA393 .B37 2016
NLM classification:
  • W 84 AA1
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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