The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get OutHarvard University Press, 2005 M09 6 - 307 pages If we can decode the human genome and fashion working machines out of atoms, why can't we navigate the quagmire that is our health care system? In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s. After the advent of Medicare and Medicaid and with the progressive goal to make advances in medical care available to all, medical costs began their upward spiral. Cost control measures failed and led to the HMO revolution, turning patients into consumers and doctors into providers. The swelling ranks of Americans without any insurance at all dragged the United States to the bottom of the list of industrialized nations. |
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... Medicare and Medicaid and with the progressive goal to make advances in medical care available to all, medical costs began their upward spiral. Cost control measures failed and led to the HMO revolution, turning patients into consumers ...
... Medicare and Medicaid 1965-1985 · 3 Emerging Tensions between Regulation and Market Forces : Dealing with Growth 4 Education for the Health Professions : The Impact of Growth Part III xi 1 9 30 55 89 Moving to the Present 1985-2005 5 ...
... Medicare and Medicaid . That emphasis derives from the fact that that period witnessed the cen- tury's most " revolutionary " changes in the organization and financing of the delivery of health care . These changes have altered the ...
... Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. In Chapters 3 and 4 we examine the reactions to the implementation of Medicare , the fed- eral social insurance program that provides health insurance to those age sixty - five and over and ( since 1973 ) ...
... Medicare , the last major legislation enacted in health care , on July 30 , 1965 , with their two wives and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey looking on . Photograph Bettmann / CORBIS . 1 The Educational and Scientific Revolution ...
Contents
Higher Standards and Changing Priorities | 9 |
Increasing Access to Medical Care | 30 |
Dealing with Growth | 55 |
The lmpact of Growth | 89 |
A Changing Face for Medicine | 129 |
Progress in Health and the Role of Public Health | 158 |