The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get OutHarvard University Press, 2009 M06 30 - 307 pages In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s, showing how the promises of medical advances have not been matched either by financing or by delivery of care. As a new crisis looms, and the existing patchwork of insurance is poised to unravel, American leaders must again take up the question of health care. This book brings the voice of reason and the promise of compromise to that debate. |
Contents
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Part II In the Wake of Medicare and Medicaid 19651985 | 53 |
Part III Moving to the Present 19852005 | 127 |
Part IV Anticipating the Next Revolution 2005 and Beyond | 189 |
Notes | 265 |
Index | 295 |
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