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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... Health and the Role of Public Health 158 Part 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 ...
... health insurance program and seeing that services were available for people in remote and disadvantaged areas of our country . My proposal would have pro- vided " catastrophic " coverage for all citizens and comprehensive cov- erage for ...
... health insurance , receive less health care and have no protection against the financial impact of illness , and about the anger and irritation of patients , physicians , legislators , and others who encounter or fund American medicine ...
... Health Insurance , thereby furthering his involvement with the legislative branch of government . In the mid- 1970s Dr. Richmond returned to Washington to serve in President Carter's administration as Assistant Secretary for Health in ...
... health insurance in the United States and the enactment of 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 ...
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 |