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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... millions of uninsured and under- insured Americans . Over the years since I left office , these problems have gotten worse . Our nation seems even further away from dealing with these threats to the physical , mental , and financial ...
... million Americans who , without health insurance , receive less health care and have no protection against the ... millions of people. 1 Introduction.
... millions of people who work within the health sector , and the tens of millions of Americans who deserve and want a better system . We hope that this book will provide them all with a better understanding of " how we got here , " the ...
... million children over the next forty years , and Neigh- borhood Health Centers , both vital programs in the War on Poverty . Rashi Fein , educated as an economist , served on the staff of Presi- dent Kennedy's Council of Economic ...
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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 |