The Health Care Mess
Subtitle: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out
Contributors: Jimmy Carter (Foreword)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: September 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674019249
Subjects: Health systems & services; United States; Health planning; Health Care Delivery; Health & Fitness; Medical / Nursing; Medical policy; Health/Fitness; USA; Health Care Issues; Health Policy; Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues; Medical care
Description: "In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s. After the advent of Medicare and Medicaid and with the progressive goal to make advances in medical care available to all, medical costs began their upward spiral. Cost control measures failed and led to the HMO revolution, turning patients into consumers and doctors into providers. The swelling ranks of Americans without any insurance at all dragged the United States to the bottom of the list of industrialized nations.".

"Over the last century medical education was also profoundly transformed into today's powerful triumvirate of academic medical centers, schools of medicine and public health, and research programs, all of which have shaped medical practice and medical care. The authors show how the promises of medical advances have not been matched either by financing or by delivery of care."--BOOK JACKET.