Health Care Politics And
Policy in America, 3rd Edition Kant Patel, Mark E. Rushefsky
Hardcover: 480 pages
ISBN 0765614782
9780765614780
ME Sharpe
April 2006 (click the button below for the very best available price)
Softcover: 480 pages
ISBN 0765614790
9780765614797
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Fully updated in this new edition,
Health Care Politics and Policy in America combines a historical
overview of U.S. health policy with analysis of current trends and
reform efforts. Topics fully covered include:
Health Care Politics -
The Health Policy Environment, Key Health Policy Actors
Health Care Policy in the
United States - Health Care in the Nineteenth Century, The
Transformation of American Medicine: 1900-1935, The Role of the
Federal Government, Expansion of Health Facilities and Services:
1930-1960, Increasing Access to Health Care: The 1960s, Efforts
at Health Care Cost Containment: 1970-1980s, The Reagan
Administration, George H. W. Bush Administration, The Clinton
Administration and Health Care Reforms, George W. Bush
Administration, Presidential Election of 2004, The Role of State
and Local Governments in Health Care
Medicaid: Health Care for the
Poor - Program Objective and Structure, Medicaid:
Eligibility, Coverage, Services, and Benefits, Major Trends in
the Medicaid Program, The Medicaid Program during the Reagan and
Bush Years: 1980-1992, Reagan's New Federalism and the
Decentralization of the Medicaid Program: 1981-1984,
Congressional Expansion of the Medicaid Program: 1984-1990,
Federal Government's Response to State Taxes on Hospitals and
Health Care Providers, Further Devolution of the Medicaid
Program during the Clinton Administration: 1992-1998, Medicaid
Program and the State Governments: Innovations and
Experimentation, 1980-1990s, Medicaid Managed Care in the 1990s,
State Governments, Medicaid, and Children's Insurance Program,
Medicaid: Middle-Class Entitlement? Current Fiscal Crisis of
Medicaid, Medicaid Reform
Medicare: Health Care for the
Elderly and Disabled - The Origins of Medicare, Program
Objectives and Structure, Financing Medicare, Medicare, Balanced
Budgets, and Managed Care, The Disaster of the Medicare
Catastrophic Coverage Act, Controlling Costs, The Problem of
Long-Term Care, Prescriptions and Change, What Is in the Law,
Tenuous Future of Medicare
Health Care and the
Disadvantaged: Falling through the Cracks, Equality and
Equity, Uninsured and Underinsured, Profiling the Uninsured,
Consequences of Uninsurance or Underinsurance, Insurance and the
Idea of Community, A Closer Look: Women and Minorities,
Solutions to the Problem of Uninsurance and Underinsurance
Health Care Cost Containment
- Theoretical Framework: Government Regulation and Market
Competition, The Role of the Federal Government in Cost
Containment, State Governments and Cost Containment, The Private
Sector and Cost Containment
Medical Malpractice and
Medical Liability - Medical Errors, Medical Injury, and
Patient Safety, The Origins of Medical Malpractice, Medical
Malpractice and Liability in the United States, The Current Tort
System, Criticisms of the Current Tort System, Alternatives and
Reforms, Medical Liability: Federal Government Policy and
Reforms, Medical Liability Reforms at the State Level,
Effectiveness of Tort Reforms, Medical Liability, Managed Care,
Enterprise Liability, and ERISA, Federal Patients' Bill of
Rights
Health Care Technology -
The Growth and Diffusion of Medical Technology, Factors
Responsible for the Growth of Medical Technologies, Health Care
Technology and Costs, Medical Technology Assessment, Current
Status of Health Care Technology Assessment, Medical
Technologies: Law, Politics, Religion, and Ethics, The Beginning
of Life: Assisted Reproductive Technologies, The End of Life:
Life Sustaining Technologies and the Right- to-Die, Public
Opinion and the Right-to-Die, The Legacy of Terri Schiavo, The
Right-to-Die Movement, Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, Living
Will and Durable Power of Attorney, Health Care Rationing,
Conclusion: Medical Technology, Ethics, and Public Policy
Reforming the System -
Systemic Problems, The Economic Critique, Moving toward Reform,
Health Care Reform on the Front Burner, The States and
Comprehensive Health Care Reform
The Triumph of Incrementalism:
From Managed Care to Consumer-Driven Health Care, Retrenchment,
Covering Children, Managed Care, Managed Care Backlash, Public
Sector Response to Managed Care, Back to the Market
Conclusion: Health Care
Policy at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, Concluding
Thoughts
