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Subtitle: what we can do about the health-care crisis
By: Tom Daschle  ; with Scott S. Greenberger and Jeanne M. Lambrew
Contributors: Greenberger, Scott S.; Lambrew, Jeanne M.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780312383015
Subjects: Health insurance; Government policy; Quality of Health Care; Medically Uninsured; Economics; Delivery of Health Care; Health Policy; Health Insurance; Health care reform; Medical care; Health Care Reform; Medical policy
Description: Daschle examines the weaknesses of the health care system in the United States, arguing why previous attempts at national health coverage failed.  He proposes that an independent Federal Health Board be created and that employers' plans, Medicaid and Medicare be merged with an expanded FEHBP (Federal Employee Health Benefits Program) that would cover everyone.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: The crisis; title: History of health reform; title: What went wrong and models for making it right; title: The federal health board; title: Prospects for the health reform.