Chapter 1: Introduction: The Strengths and Weaknesses of US Health Care
Section I: Financing and Payment-How Money Moves
Chapter 2: Paying for Health Care
Chapter 3: Health Insurance and Access to Health Care
Chapter 4: Paying Health Care Providers
Section II: Equity and Resource Allocation
Chapter 5: Health Equity
Chapter 6: Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care
Section III: The Organization of Health Care
Chapter 7: How Health Care Is Organized-I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care
Chapter 8: How Health Care Is Organized-II: Health Care Delivery Systems
Chapter 9: The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals
Chapter 10: Long-Term Care
Section IV: Cost, Quality, and Value
Chapter 11: Painful Versus Painless Cost Control
Chapter 12: Mechanisms for Controlling Costs
Chapter 13: Quality of Health Care
Chapter 14: Population Health and Disease Prevention
Section V: The Political Economy of Health Care
Chapter 15: Health Care in Four Nations
Chapter 16: Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance
Chapter 17: The Business of US Health Care
Section VI: Conclusion and Study Guide
Chapter 18: Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges
Chapter 19: Questions to Assess Understanding
Appendix: Answers to Questions in Chapter 19.