Description
With private health insurance costs averaging over $300 per month, per person-and with 36 million Americans lacking coverage of any sort-it is easy to understand why health care has captured the public imagination as the domestic policy issue of the 1990s. Americans spend well over $800 billion a year on health care, yet we are neglecting ba
Table of Contents
A Snapshot of Health Care Delivery Today -- Perspectives and Perceptions -- The Changing Profile of U.S. Health Care -- Understanding the Problems -- What Are the Problems? -- What's Causing the Problems? -- What Are the Options? -- How Do We Get Coverage for Everyone? -- Cutting Costs: Piecemeal Approaches -- Cutting Costs: Overall Approaches -- Components of an Achievable Better System -- Elements for an Optimal Health Care Plan
