TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barr,Donald A.
TI  - Introduction to U.S. health policy: the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America 
SN  - 9781421402178 (alk. paper)
AV  - RA393 .B335 2011
U1  - 362.10973 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - United States
KW  - Health planning
KW  - Medicine
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-349) 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 increasing role of for-profit health care -- Pharmaceutical policy and the rising cost of prescription drugs -- Long-term care -- The uninsured -- Factors other than health insurance that impede access to health care -- Key policy issues for deciding the direction of health care reform
ER  -