Debating health care
Subtitle: a Health Affairs retrospective
By: edited by John K. Iglehart
Contributors: Project Hope
Publisher: Health Affairs, Project Hope
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780615164915
Subjects: Medical care; Law and legislation; Health insurance; Health care reform; Medical Economics; Health Care Reform; Gezondheidszorg; Herzieningen
Other titles: Health affairs.
Notes: Contains essays previously published in the journal Health affairs.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Debating for-profit health care and the ethics of physicians / Arnold S. Relman, Uwe E. Reinhardt; title: 'Competition revolution' in health care / Victor R. Fuchs; title: How the U.S. spent is health care dollar: 1929-1980 / Marc L. Berk, Alan C. Monheit, Michael M. Hagan; title: Medicare catastrophic coverage act: a post-mortem / Thomas Rice, Katherine Desmond, Jon Gabel; title: Plan for 'responsible national health insurance' / Mark V. Pauly, Patrician Danzon, Paul Feldstein, John Hoff; title: Tracing the cycle of health insurance / Jon Gabel [and others]; title: History and principles of managed competition / Alain C. Enthoven; title: Rationale behind the Clinton health care reform plan / Walter A. Zelman.; title: (cont.) Prescription drugs and the elderly: issues and options / Stephen H. Long; title: Rise and resounding demise of the Clinton plan / Theda Skocpol; title: Medicare reform debate: what is the next step? / Henry J. Aaron, Robert D. Reischauer; title: Spending more through 'cost control': our obsessive quest to gut the hospital / Uwe E. Reinhardt; title: Does managed care lead to better or worse quality of care? /Robert H. Miller, Harold S. Luft; title: Muddling through elegantly: finding the proper balance in rationing / David Mechanic; title: Measuring access to care: improving information for policymakers / Marc L. Berk, Claudia L. Schur; title: Political economy of Medicare / Bruce C. Vladeck.; title: (cont.) Me and the system: the personal essay and health policy / Fitzhugh Mullan; title: Founder of quality assessment encounters a troubled system / Fitzhugh Mullan, Avedis Donabedian; title: Nurses' report on hospital care in five countries / Linda H. Aiken [and others]; title: Is technological change in medicine worth it? /David M. Cutler, Mark McClellan; title: Geography and the debate over Medicare reform / John E. Wennberg, Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner; title: Strengthening the nation's public health infrastructure: historic challenge, unprecedented opportunity / Edward L. Baker Jr., Jeffrey P. Koplan; title: Medicaid and mental health: be careful what you ask for / Richard G. Frank [and others].; title: (cont.) It's the prices, stupid: why the United States is so different from other countries / Gerhard F. Anderson [and others]; title: Are market forces strong enough to deliver efficient health care systems? Confidence is waning / Len M. Nichols [and others]; title: Who you are and where you live: how race and geography affect the treatment of Medicare beneficiaries / Katherine Baicker [and others]; title: Consolidation and the transformation of competition in health insurance / James C. Robinson; title: Understanding social insurance: fairness, affordability, and the 'modernization' of Social Security and Medicare / Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw; title: Developing a center for comparative effectiveness information / Gail R. Wilensky.