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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... 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 President , I ...
... roles for government and the market . We have responded to the continuing increase in national health expenditures with conflicting efforts to regulate and to foster free - market competi- tion . Our reliance on the latter makes us ...
... roles and experiences . Both of us share a view about our country . We deplore the wide dis- parities not only in health care but in income , education , housing , and other important factors that affect well - being and opportunity ...
... role in the delivery of medi- cal care services , the increasing intrusion of for - profit investment crite- ria into medical care decisions , and the new entrepreneurial ethos with which the organized health professions could not cope ...
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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 |