The Accidental System
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780813399966
Subjects: Central government policies; Emergency services; Health systems & services; Politics - Current Events; Medical care; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; United States; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - U.S. Government; Health Policy; Public Policy - General; Medical / Health Policy; Political Science-Government - U.S. Government; Political Science-Public Policy - General; Government - State & Provincial; Medical policy
First sentence: AMERICAN MEDICAL CARE IS often asserted to be the "best in the world."
Description: "With the demise of the Clinton health care reform plan, the debate on health care changed but did not subside. From opinion pieces in newspapers to dinner-table conversations, the debate over whether or not quality health care is a public right - akin to educating our children - or whether it is a private one - akin to life insurance - continues. In The Accidental System Michael D.

Reagan shows that in the American political context, health care is neither exclusively a public right nor a private privilege. This insightful policy study provides students with an excellent demonstration of how public policy intersects with private markets."--BOOK JACKET.