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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: road to health care reform
    sub title: designing a system that works
  name:
    name part: Merrill, Jeffrey C.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 313 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: As we forge ahead in charting a new health care course, we must devise the most modern, streamlined, and economically sound system that can answer the needs of this nation's citizens.
  abstract: Jeffrey Merrill - formerly Principal Health Economist for the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and past Director of Legislation and Policy for the Health Care and Financing Administration - has traveled worldwide to explore the systems of many other developed nations. He has found that they have managed not only to achieve universal health care - with a higher degree of consumer satisfaction - but they spend less than we do.
  abstract: Our great nation, home to many of the finest, cutting-edge facilities, needs a vision that will lead to the highest quality care for all Americans. Merrill asks why these other countries have made health care available to all their citizens, while we, the richest and most technologically advanced country, have not. Despite the fact that we as Americans are all vulnerable to financial ruin were we to lose our jobs or be stricken with catastrophic illness, we have not been willing to guarantee our fellow Americans the right to health care coverage.
  abstract: Some assume that the only way to accomplish such a goal would be to water down the quality of care and entrust our health and lives to the hands of the government. Merrill argues that this is not the case.
  abstract: Contrary to popular myth, Merrill shows that the options for universal health care are virtually limitless and can be achieved as easily through the private sector without turning the whole system over to the government.
  abstract: By crafting a system that is uniquely American, yet draws on the best that other systems have to offer - those of the Canadians, French, Japanese, British, Germans, Dutch, and Australians - we can provide the highest quality of health care while actually giving doctors and hospitals greater latitude and control, placing clinical decision making back in their hands. Unless we seize the moment to design a new system, the costs of health care will continue to skyrocket for consumers.
  abstract: As Merrill argues, it is really in no one's best interest, including insurers, hospitals, health professionals, consumers, or the economy in general to reduce health care expenditures. The question is, however, whether we can afford universal access without controlling cost. Merrill offers suggestions on how we might balance the needs of the economy for a robust, growing health sector with concerns over breaking the bank.
  abstract: He offers a fresh, pragmatic, and nonideologic approach to solving this and formulating a new health care system, one that will view health care as a right, not a privilege. He fuses the best of America's values and ingenuity with the successful health care approaches of other nations. If we follow his expert recommendations, we will be rewarded not only with a finer, more comprehensive health care plan, but one that we can afford.
  table of contents: Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Origins of Our Health Care System -- Ch. 3. Diagnosing the Problem -- Ch. 4. Closing the Frontier -- Ch. 5. Making Health Care a Right -- Ch. 6. Financing and Organizing Health Care -- Ch. 7. Cost Containment and Reimbursement -- Ch. 8. Tying It All Together.
  note: Jeffrey C. Merrill.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-301) and index.
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  subject:
    topic: Health care reform
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Health Care Reform
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Gezondheidszorg
  subject:
    topic: Hervormingen
  subject:
    topic: Gesundheitswesen
  subject:
    geographic: USA
  subject:
    topic: Health care reform
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Health services
    topic: Reform
  subject:
    topic: United States
  classification: RA395.A3 M467 1994
  classification: 362.1/0973
  classification: 1994 J-836
  classification: WA 540 AA1 M47r 1994
  classification: 44.10
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    title info:
      title: Road to health care reform
    name:
      name part: Merrill, Jeffrey C.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Plenum Press, c1994
    identifier: (DLC) 94028830
    identifier: (OCoLC)30814160
  identifier: 9781489959942 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1489959947 (electronic bk.)
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng