Introduction to U.S. health policy : the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America /
Barr, Donald A.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-349) 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 increasing role of for-profit health care -- Pharmaceutical policy and the rising cost of prescription drugs -- Long-term care -- The uninsured -- Factors other than health insurance that impede access to health care -- Key policy issues for deciding the direction of health care reform.
Medical policy
Health planning
Medicine