The health care mess : how we got into it and what it will take to get out
"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."
Print Book, English, 2005
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2005
xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780674019249, 9780674024151, 0674019245, 067402415X
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