Introduction to U.S. health policy
Subtitle: the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America
By: Donald A. Barr
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781421402178; 9781421402185
Subjects: Health planning; Health Planning; Delivery of Health Care; Medical Economics; Health Policy; Medicare; Organization & administration; Government Financing; Medicine; Medical policy
Other titles: Introduction to United States health policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: The affordable care act and the politics of health care reform; title: Health, health care, and the market economy; title: Health care as a reflection of underlying cultural values and institutions; title: The health professions and the organization of health care; title: Health insurance, HMOs, and the managed care revolution; title: Medicare; title: Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program; title: The increasing role of for-profit health care; title: Pharmaceutical policy and the rising cost of prescription drugs; title: Long-term care; title: The uninsured; title: Factors other than health insurance that impede access to health care; title: Key policy issues for deciding the direction of health care reform.