Full Description
This book explores and assesses the problems and transformations underway in the financing of U.S. health care and in the delivery of services on the eve of an era of major health care reform. It can be viewed as a follow-up to The Medical Triangle: Physicians, Politicians and the Public.
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- The Changing Health Care Scene: The Longest View -- Everything I Know About Health Care I Learned in the Pentagon in World War II -- The Impact of World War II on U.S. Medicine -- The Veterans Administration in a Vise -- Health Reform: Lessons from Employment, Housing, and Education -- The Reform of Medical Education -- Health Care and the Market -- The Limits of Health Reform Revisited -- Health Policy: The Old Era Passes -- Health Personnel: The Challenges Ahead -- Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations -- High-Tech Medicine -- Competition and Health Reform -- Hospitals, Doctors, and Global Budgets -- The Poor and the Uninsured -- Financing Health Care for the Poor: Second-Best Solutions -- Restructuring Health Services in New York City -- Access to Health Care for Hispanics -- Beyond Universal Health Insurance -- Toward Health Reform -- Health Care Reform: Why So Slow? -- Interest Groups and Health Reform -- Physicians and Health Care Reform -- Where Are We and Where Should We Be Going? -- President Clinton's Design for Reform -- Credits
