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Introduction to US health policy : the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America
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Title
Introduction to US health policy : the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America / Donald A. Barr, MD, Phd, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
ISBN
9781421420714
1421420716
9781421420721
1421420724
9781421420738
1421420732
Edition
Fourth edition/Johns Hopkins edition.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Physical Description
xvii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Variant and related titles
Introduction to United States health policy.
Format
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Language
English
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-426) and index.
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.
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