Title: Health care USA
Description: This book describes the changing roles and functions of health care in the United States, as well as the technical, economic, political, and social forces responsible for those changes. The authors provide an exceptionally clear overview of the many factors that determine why, how, where, and at what cost health care is delivered in the United States. It highlights the momentous readjustments occurring in the market-driven system resulting from the managed care backlash, the implementation of the Balance Budget Act of 1997, and its amendments and contemporary policy directions.
Subjects: Medical care, Health Policy, Medical policy, Delivery of Health Care, Politique sanitaire, Soins médicaux, Medical care, united states