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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... President Jimmy Carter . He is currently the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy , Emeritus , at Harvard University . RASHI FEIN , PH.D. , is Professor of Medical , Economics , Emeritus , at Harvard Medical School . HARVARD ...
... Ph.D. THE HEALTH CARE MESS HOW WE GOT INTO IT AND WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO GET OUT HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge , Massachusetts , and London , England⚫ 2005 Copyright © 2005 by the President and Fellows of Harvard.
... President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Richmond , Julius B. ( Julius Benjamin ) , 1916– The health care mess : how we ...
... IV Anticipating the Next Revolution 2005 and Beyond 7 Medical Challenges and Opportunities 191 8 Increasing Equity : Achieving Universal Health Insurance 228 Foreword JIMMY CARTER When I was President , I wrestled. Notes 265 Index 295.
... President , I wrestled with the twin problems of rapidly ris- ing health care expenditures and the millions of uninsured and under- insured Americans . Over the years since I left office , these problems have gotten worse . Our nation ...
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 |