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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... it into a book and did so most effectively . Richard Audet edited the manuscript with great skill . We ( and the readers ) owe him our thanks . Contents Foreword by Jimmy Carter Introduction Part I The Early viii Acknowledgments.
... Early Years 1900-1965 · 1 The Educational and Scientific Revolution : Higher Standards and Changing Priorities 2 The Consumer Revolution : Increasing Access to Medical Care Part II In the Wake of Medicare and Medicaid 1965-1985 · 3 ...
... early 1960s to assume very different responsibilities . Julius Richmond , educated as a physician , developed and was the first head of Head Start , which benefited 23 million children over the next forty years , and Neigh- borhood ...
... early decades of the century , changes that enabled med- icine to do more in a more effective manner for more people . As a con- sequence of medicine's growing abilities and successes , access to and the availability of medical care ...
... We examine the cri- teria that should guide efforts to develop a universal health program and offer our own proposal to accomplish that goal . Part I THE EARLY YEARS ( 1900-1965 ) Former President 6 THE HEALTH CARE MESS.
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 |