Health at Risk : : America's Ailing Health System-and How to Heal It / / ed. by Jacob Hacker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Hacker, Jacob S.,; McGlynn, Elizabeth A.,; McKelvey, J. Brandon,; Meltzer, David,; Quadagno, Jill,; Swartz, Katherine,; Thorne, Deborah,; Warren, Elizabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Hacker, Jacob,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE. The Transformation of American Health Insurance --; CHAPTER TWO. Uninsured in America: New Realities, New Risks --; CHAPTER THREE. Get Sick, Go Broke --; CHAPTER FOUR. Just How Good Is American Medical Care? --; CHAPTER FIVE. The New Push for American Health Security --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231518611; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/hack14602
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jacob Hacker.

In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care to declining levels of insurance coverage, medical bankruptcy, and the growing enthusiasm for health plans that put patients in charge of risk and cost. Bringing the latest research to bear on these issues, contributors diagnose the problems of our present system and offer treatments grounded in extensive experience. Free of bias and rhetoric, Health at Risk is an invaluable tool for those who are concerned with the current state of healthcare and are eager to effect change.