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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... 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 The Entrepreneurial Revolution : A Changing Face for Medicine 129 6 Beyond the Dollars : Progress in Health ...
... growth , and on education for the health professions . As a consequence of the failure of regulatory efforts to control ex- penditures , the body politic turned to the free market in the hope that competitive forces would rein in the growth ...
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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 |