Health Care Politics and Policy in America

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents ix
• List of Tables xi
• Preface xiii
• Acknowledgments xiv
• List of Abbreviations xv
• Chronology of Significant Events and Legislation in U.S. Health Care xvii
• 1 - Health Care Politics 1
• Conclusions 24
• 2 - Health Care Policy in the United States 25
• Conclusion 47
• 3 - Medicaid: Health Care for the Poor 51
• Conclusions 74
• 4 - Medicare: Health Care for the Elderly and Disabled 77
• Conclusion 102
• 5 - Health Care and the Disadvantaged: Falling Through the Cracks 104
• Conclusion 127
• 6 - Health Care Cost Containment 129
• Conclusions 155
• 7 - Health Care Technology 157
• Conclusion: Medical Technology, Ethics, and Public Policy 180
• 8: Reforming the System 183
• 9 - Conclusion: Health Care Policy at the End of the Twentieth Century 219
• Notes 223
• Selected Bibliography 259
• Index 283
• About the Authors 291

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