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Introduction to US health policy : the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barr, Donald A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Medical policy > United States.
Health planning > United States.
Medicine > United States.
United States. > Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Medicare > organization & administration.
Delivery of Health Care.
Health Policy.
Health Care Reform.
Health Planning.
Financing, Government.
Economics, Medical.
United States.
Table of 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.