Healthcare Reform, Politics and 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. While these authors are not necessarily in agreement with one another, all of these books shed needed light on our national problem - and these books offer intelligent and varied ideas for solving our healthcare crisis in America. These are excellent resources.

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Accountability: Patient Safety & Policy Reform - Oct 2004
Bad Medicine: How the American Medical Establishment Is Ruining Our Healthcare System - 2004
Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform - 1996
(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
Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Providers, Players & Policy-Makers - 2004
(The) Corporate Transformation of Health Care - Oct 2004
Coverage Matters: Insurance & Health Care - IOM, 2001
Critical Condition: How Health Care Became Big Business - Oct 2005
Curing U.S. Healthcare - pdf download document, Dec 2006
Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America - 2003
(The) Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change? Feb 2007
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
False Alarm: Greatest Threat to Social Security & Medicare - Aug 2003
Healing Healthcare - May 2008
Health & Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, & Inequity - Oct 2003
(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 Insurance is a Family Matter - IOM, 2002
Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach - Sep 2007
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 - Mar 2005
Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America - IOM, 2003
Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point - Jan 2007
Insuring America's Health: Principles & Recommendations - IOM, 2004
Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes - May 2005
Market Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses - 1999
Medicare Prospective Payment & the Shaping of US Health Care - Nov 2006
Medicine & Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care - 2002
Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice - May 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
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine - Jun 2005
Oxymorons: The Myth of a US Health Care System - 2001
Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care - May 2005
(The) Politics of Health Legislation: An Economic Perspective, 3e - ACHE, May 2006
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
(The) Rights of Patients: Authoritative Guide to the Rights of Patients, 3e - Nov 2004
(A) Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance - 2003
Shredding the Social Contract: Privatization of Medicare - Mar 2006
Social Injustice & Public Health - Aug 2005
(The) Social Medicine Reader: Health Policy, Markets, & Medicine, Vol. III - 2005
Solving the Health Care Problem: How Other Nations Succeeded & the US Failed - Aug 2006
(The) Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health - Aug 2004
Steps on the Road to Medicare: Why Saskatchewan Led the Way - Apr 2003
(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 2004
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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