Health Care Reform, Healthcare Politics and Health Policy

This Guide offers reading suggestions for everyday citizens, policy-makers and health professionals who wish to gain a deeper understanding of our healthcare system - its problems, its controversies, its successes, and its future.

How do we fix our healthcare system? Should we enact single payer coverage or universal care? Should we allow the market forces and commerce to solve this problem without intervention?

Health care reform will remain on the legislative and political agenda for many years to come. Sooner or later we have to do something. What should we do? The authors here offer facts, solutions and insights. Together, these books shed needed light on our national healthcare crisis. These are excellent resources.

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10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care - Sep 2008
(The) $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs - 2005
Accountability: Patient Safety & Policy Reform - Oct 2004
Aging Nation: The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America - Johns Hopkins, Apr 2008
Bad Medicine: How the American Medical Establishment Is Ruining Our Healthcare System - 2004
Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform - 1996
Bioethics & Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine & War - MIT, Jun 2006
Bioethics in a Liberal Society - John Hopkins, 2002
Bioethics in the Clinic - John Hopkins, May 2004
Bioethics Beyond the Headlines - Oct 2005
Brave New Bioethics - Jan 2003
Business Ethics in Healthcare: Beyond Compliance - 2001
(The) Brave New World of Health Care - Aug 2003
(The) Business of Healthcare Innovation - Oct 2005
Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late - IOM, Jun 2002
(A) Caring Jurisprudence - 1999
Code of Medical Ethics, Current Opinions - AMA, Current Edition
Comparative Health Systems: Global Perspectives - Jun 2009
Compliance Books - see our full list of resources regarding current healthcare law
Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Providers, Players & Policy-Makers - 2004
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 7e - Oct 2007
Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law & Ethics, 3e - ACHE, Nov 2007
(The) Corporate Transformation of Health Care - Oct 2004
(The) Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim its Moral Legacy? - May 2007
Coverage Matters: Insurance & Health Care - IOM, 2001
Critical Condition: How Health Care Became Big Business - Oct 2005
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis - Feb 2008
Critically Thinking About Medical Ethics - 2004
Curing U.S. Healthcare - pdf download document, Dec 2006
Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America - 2004
(The) Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change? Feb 2007
Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying - Jun 2009
(The) Economics of Health Reconsidered, 2e - ACHE, Nov 2002
Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation - 2002
Essentials of Health Policy & Law - Mar 2007
Essential Readings in Health Policy & Law - Aug 2008
Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy - Nov 2005
Ethical & Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: A Comprehensive Handbook - 2005
Ethical & Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research - John Hopkins, Jan 2004
Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information, 2e - Apr 2006
Ethical Choices: Case Studies for Medical Practice, 2e - Feb 2005
Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy - Nov 2005
Ethical Issues in Cancer Patient Care, 2e - Dec 2007
Ethical Governance in Health Care - Oct 2004
Ethical Health Care - Aug 2005
Ethical Reasoning for Mental Health Professionals - Jan 2006
Ethics & Information Technology - 2002
Ethics & Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 3e - Aug 2007
Ethics & the Metaphysics of Medicine - MIT, Jul 2004
Ethics Consultation: Theory to Practice - John Hopkins, May 2003
Ethics in Clinical Practice, 2e - Jul 2004
Ethics in Health Administration: Practical Approach for Decision Makers, 2e - Oct 2009
Ethics in Health Services Management, 4e - Oct 2004
Ethics of Health Care: Guide for Clinical Practice, 3e - Jul 2005
(The) Ethics of Health Care Rationing - Aug 2003
(The) Ethics of Hospital Trustees - Jun 2004
(The) Ethics of Managed Care - Mar 2003
Ethics of the Use of Human Subjects in Research - 2002
False Alarm: Greatest Threat to Social Security & Medicare - Aug 2003
Getting Health Reform Right a Guide to Improving Performance & Equity - May 2008
Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy - Nov 2006
Healing Healthcare - May 2008
Health & Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, & Inequity - Oct 2003
Health & the Good Society: Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context - Aug 2008
Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System & How to Heal It - Oct 2008
Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century, 2e - Apr 2008
Health Care Ethics for Psychologists - Aug 2004
Health Care Law & Ethics, 7e - Oct 2007
Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths & Fixing Our Failing System, 2e - Aug 2007
(The) Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It - Apr 2007
Health Care Politics & Policy in America, 3e - Apr 2006
Health Care Reform: Ethics & Politics - Sep 2006
Health Care Reform Now! A Prescription for Change - Aug 2007
Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation & Compromise - Nov 2006
Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity & Health - May 2008
Health Insurance is a Family Matter - IOM, 2002
Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach - Sep 2007
Health Policy & Politics: A Nurse's Guide, 3e - 2008
Health Policy: Crisis & Reform in the US Health Care Delivery System, 5e - May 2007
Health Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective, 4e - Jul 2007
Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America - Mar 2005
Healthy, Wealthy, & Fair: Health Care & the Good Society - Sep 2007
Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America - IOM, 2003
Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point - Jan 2007
Incentives & Choice in Health Care - Aug 2008
Infections & Inequalities: The Modern Plagues - 2001
(The) Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care - Dec 2008
Insuring America's Health: Principles & Recommendations - IOM, 2004
Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes - May 2005
Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly - Oct 2007
Law Books - see our full list of resources regarding current healthcare law
Legal & Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, 2e - Jun 2009
Legal & Ethical Issues in Nursing, 5e - Aug 2009
Legal Books - see our full list of resources regarding current healthcare law
Legal, Ethical & Political Issues in Nursing, 2e - 2004
Managed Care: What It Is & How It Works, 3e - Nov 2008
Managing Ethically: An Executive's Guide - ACHE, 2001
Market Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses - 1999
Medical Ethics: Policies, Protocols, Guidelines & Programs - always current
(The) Medical Malpractice Myth - August 2007
Medicare Prospective Payment & the Shaping of US Health Care - May 2008
Medicine & Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care - 2002
Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice - May 2006
Medicine, Health, & Bioethics: Essential Primary Sources - Jun 2006
Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much - May 2006
One Nation, Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance - Oct 2006
On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health - Oct 2005
Organizational Ethics in Health Care: Principles, Cases, Practical Solutions - 2001
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine - Feb 2008
Oxymorons: The Myth of a US Health Care System - 2001
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights & the New War on the Poor - Nov 2004
Policy & Politics in Nursing & Health Care, 5e - Nov 2006
Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care - May 2005
(The) Politics of Health Legislation: An Economic Perspective, 3e - ACHE, May 2006
(The) Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals, with HIPAA Update, 2e - Jun 2008
Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum - Sep 2004
(The) Privatization of Health Care Reform: Legal & Regulatory Perspectives - Oct 2002
Protecting American Health Care Consumers - 2002
Rage & Reconciliation: Inspiring a Health Care Revolution - SMU, Nov 2005
Regulatory Books & Resrouces - see our full list of resources regarding current healthcare law
(The) Rights of Patients: Authoritative Guide to the Rights of Patients, 3e - Nov 2004
Rx for Health Care Reform - Aug 2007
(A) Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care - May 2007
(A) Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance - 2003
Shredding the Social Contract: Privatization of Medicare - Mar 2006
Social Injustice & Public Health - Aug 2005
Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health & Health Policy - Oct 2008
(The) Social Medicine Reader, 2e, Vol. 1, 2, 3 - Duke Univ, 2005
Solving the Health Care Problem: How Other Nations Succeeded & the US Failed - Jun 2007
(The) Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health - Aug 2004
Steps on the Road to Medicare: Why Saskatchewan Led the Way - Apr 2003
Strengthening Ethical Wisdom - AHA, Jul 2007
(The) Tracks We Leave: Ethics in Healthcare Management - ACHE, 2002
(The) Truth About Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America - Mar 2008
(The) Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us & What to Do About It - Aug 2005
Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 5e - Aug 2008
Uninsured in America: Life & Death in the Land of Opportunity - Apr 2005
Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance - Jan 2005
Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes - May 2003
What the Doctor Didn't Say: The Hidden Truth about Medical Research - Aug 2006
Where Have We Failed? A Systemic Analysis - Oct 2002
White Coat, Clenched Fist: Political Education of an American Physician - Dec 2006
Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System - Feb 2005
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