Our unsystematic health care system
By: Grace Budrys
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781442210684; 9781442210691; 9781442210707
Subjects: Health Policy; Health Care Reform; Delivery of Health Care
Description: "This book presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. The third edition has been significantly revised throughout to explain the Patient Protection and Health Care Affordability Act as it unfolds. Other key updates include more detailed discussions of health insurance, expanded information on health systems in other countries, and new case studies"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; title: Chapter 1: An Interdisciplinary Overview of the Health Care System; title: Chapter 2: Health Reform: Why Now; title: Chapter 3: Hospitals and Other Health Care Organizations; title: Chapter 4: Health Care Occupations; title: Chapter 5: Private Health Insurance; title: Chapter 6: Public Health Insurance; title: Chapter 7: Opinions on the Health Care Reform Act; title: Chapter 8: The Health Care Systems in Other Countries; title: Chapter 9: Health Policy: Making the Right Choices.