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. For your convenience, you may also purchase any of these books through Amazon.com.

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 - 2008
(The) $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs - 2005
Accountability: Patient Safety & Policy Reform - 2004
Aging Nation: The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America - Johns Hopkins, 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, 2006
Bioethics in a Liberal Society - John Hopkins, 2002
Bioethics in the Clinic - John Hopkins, 2004
Bioethics Beyond the Headlines - 2005
Brave New Bioethics - 2003
Business Ethics in Healthcare: Beyond Compliance - 2001
(The) Brave New World of Health Care - 2003
(The) Business of Healthcare Innovation - 2005
Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late - IOM, 2002
(A) Caring Jurisprudence - 1999
Code of Medical Ethics, Current Opinions - AMA, Current Edition
Comparative Health Systems: Global Perspectives - 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 - 2007
Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law & Ethics, 3e - ACHE, 2007
(The) Corporate Transformation of Health Care - 2004
(The) Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim its Moral Legacy? - 2007
Coverage Matters: Insurance & Health Care - IOM, 2001
Critical Condition: How Health Care Became Big Business - 2005
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis - 2008
Critically Thinking About Medical Ethics - 2004
Curing U.S. Healthcare - pdf download document, 2006
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out On How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care & Deceiving Americans - 2010
Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America - 2004
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature & Management of Health Care - 2009
(The) Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change? - 2007
Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying - 2009
(The) Economics of Health Reconsidered, 2e - ACHE, 2002
eHealth Solutions for Healthcare Disparities - 2010
Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation - 2002
Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report - 2010
Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform - Aspen, current edition
Essentials of Health Policy & Law - 2007
Essential Readings in Health Policy & Law - 2008
Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy - 2005
Ethical & Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: A Comprehensive Handbook - 2005
Ethical & Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research - John Hopkins, 2004
Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information, 2e - 2006
Ethical Choices: Case Studies for Medical Practice, 2e - 2005
Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy - 2005
Ethical Issues in Cancer Patient Care, 2e - 2007
Ethical Governance in Health Care - 2004
Ethical Health Care - 2005
Ethical Reasoning for Mental Health Professionals - 2006
Ethics & Information Technology - 2002
Ethics & Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 3e - 2007
Ethics & the Metaphysics of Medicine - MIT, 2004
Ethics Consultation: Theory to Practice - John Hopkins, 2003
Ethics in Clinical Practice, 2e - 2004
Ethics in Health Administration: Practical Approach for Decision Makers, 2e - 2009
Ethics in Health Services Management, 4e - 2004
Ethics of Health Care: Guide for Clinical Practice, 3e - 2005
(The) Ethics of Health Care Rationing - 2003
(The) Ethics of Hospital Trustees - 2004
(The) Ethics of Managed Care - 2003
Ethics of the Use of Human Subjects in Research - 2002
False Alarm: Greatest Threat to Social Security & Medicare - 2003
Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System - newest edition
Getting Health Reform Right a Guide to Improving Performance & Equity - 2008
Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy - 2006
Healing Healthcare - 2008
(The) Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper & Fairer Health Care - 2010
Health & Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, & Inequity - 2003
Health & the Good Society: Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context - 2008
Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System & How to Heal It - 2008
Healthcare Disparities at the Crossroads with Healthcare Reform - 2011
Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century, 2e - 2008
Health Care Ethics for Psychologists - 2004
Health Care in America: Separate & Unequal - 2008
Health Care Law & Ethics, 7e - 2007
Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths & Fixing Our Failing System, 2e - 2007
(The) Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It - 2007
Health Care Politics & Policy in America, 3e - 2006
Health Care Reform: Ethics & Politics - 2006
Health Care Reform Now! A Prescription for Change - 2007
Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation & Compromise - 2006
Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity & Health - 2008
Health Insurance is a Family Matter - IOM, 2002
Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach - 2007
Health Policy & Politics: A Nurse's Guide, 3e - 2008
Health Policy: Crisis & Reform in the US Health Care Delivery System, 5e - 2007
Health Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective, 5e - 2011
Health Policymaking in the United States, 5e - 2010
Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America - 2005
Healthy, Wealthy, & Fair: Health Care & the Good Society - 2007
Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America - IOM, 2003
(The) Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Have to Ration Care, Practice Politics & Compromise - 2011
Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point - 2007
Incentives & Choice in Health Care - 2008
Infections & Inequalities: The Modern Plagues - 2001
(The) Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care - 2008
Insuring America's Health: Principles & Recommendations - IOM, 2004
Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes - 2005
Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly - Oct 2007
Law Books - see our full list of resources regarding current healthcare law
Law, Explanation & Analysis of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act - Aspen, 2010
Legal & Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, 2e - 2009
Legal & Ethical Issues in Nursing, 5e - 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 - 2008
Managing Ethically: An Executive's Guide - ACHE, current edition
Managing Healthcare Ethically: An Executive's Guide - ACHE, 2009
Market Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses - 1999
Medical Ethics: Policies, Protocols, Guidelines & Programs - always current
(The) Medical Malpractice Myth - 2007
Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age - 2010
Medicare Prospective Payment & the Shaping of US Health Care - 2008
Medicine & Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care - 2002
Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice - 2006
Medicine, Health, & Bioethics: Essential Primary Sources - 2006
Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much - 2006
One Nation, Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance - 2006
On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health - 2005
Organizational Ethics in Health Care: Principles, Cases, Practical Solutions - 2001
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine - 2008
Oxymorons: The Myth of a US Health Care System - 2001
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights & the New War on the Poor - 2004
Policy & Politics in Nursing & Health Care, 6e - 2011
Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care - 2005
(The) Politics of Health Legislation: An Economic Perspective, 3e - ACHE, 2006
(The) Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals, with HIPAA Update, 2e - 2008
Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum - 2004
(The) Privatization of Health Care Reform: Legal & Regulatory Perspectives - 2002
Protecting American Health Care Consumers - 2002
Rage & Reconciliation: Inspiring a Health Care Revolution - SMU, 2005
Regulatory Books & Resrouces - see our full list of resources regarding current healthcare law
Responding to Healthcare Reform: A Strategy Guide for Healthcare Leaders - current edition
(The) Rights of Patients: Authoritative Guide to the Rights of Patients, 3e - 2004
Rx for Health Care Reform - 2007
(A) Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care - 2007
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care - 2011
(A) Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance - 2003
Shredding the Social Contract: Privatization of Medicare - 2006
Social Injustice & Public Health - 2009
Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health & Health Policy, 2e - 2011
(The) Social Medicine Reader, 2e, Vol. 1, 2, 3 - Duke Univ, 2005
Solving the Health Care Problem: How Other Nations Succeeded & the US Failed - 2007
(The) Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health - 2004
Steps on the Road to Medicare: Why Saskatchewan Led the Way - 2003
Strengthening Ethical Wisdom - AHA, 2007
(The) Tracks We Leave: Ethics in Healthcare Management - ACHE, 2002
(The) Truth About Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America - 2008
(The) Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us & What to Do About It - 2005
Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 5e - 2008
Uninsured in America: Life & Death in the Land of Opportunity - 2005
Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance - 2005
Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes - 2003
What the Doctor Didn't Say: The Hidden Truth about Medical Research - 2006
Where Have We Failed? A Systemic Analysis - 2002
White Coat, Clenched Fist: Political Education of an American Physician - 2006
Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System - 2005
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