TY - BOOK AU - Barr,Donald A. TI - Introduction to U.S. health policy: the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America SN - 9781421420714 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - RA393 .B37 2016 U1 - 362.10973 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Medical policy KW - United States KW - Health planning N1 - 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 ER -