Shock therapy for America's health care system
Subtitle: why comprehensive reform is needed
By: Robert A. Levine.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780313380686; 9780313380693
Subjects: Health care reform -- United States; Health Care Reform -- United States; Health Services -- trends -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-178) and index.
Table of contents: title: Addressing the myths about health care reform; title: Evolution of the American health care system : the changing physician, organized medicine, and efforts at health care reform; title: Evolution of the American health care system : hospitals, the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical device industry; title: Problems with the current health care system; title: Malpractice and medical negligence; title: Comprehensive health care reform; title: Proposals for U.S. health care reform and a brief survey of other nations' health care systems; title: Obstacles to comprehensive reform.