Health care reform and disparities
Subtitle: history, hype, and hope
By: Toni P. Miles
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780313397684; 9780313397691
Subjects: Healthcare Disparities; Health Insurance; Health Care Reform
Description: "This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud create inequity the root cause of our dysfunctional health care system, and the reason for the rising cost of health care for all Americans"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview : Diminishing health disparities; title: Beyond Medicaid; title: Quality, disparities, and Title III; title: Business models, disparities, and reform; title: Lobbyists; title: Fraud; title: Young adults; title: Correctable disparities, the Affordable Care Act, and public health research.