The Health Care Mess : : How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out / / Rashi Fein, Julius B. Richmond.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Richmond, Julius B.,; Fein, Rashi,
• MitwirkendeR: Carter, Jimmy,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I. The Early Years (1900-1965) -- 1. The Educational and Scientific Revolution: Higher Standards and Changing Priorities -- 2. The Consumer Revolution: Increasing Access to Medical Care -- Part II. In the Wake of Medicare and Medicaid (1965-1985) -- 3. Emerging Tensions between Regulation and Market Forces: Dealing with Growth -- 4. Education for the Health Professions: The Impact of Growth -- Part III. Moving to the Present (1985-2005) -- 5. The Entrepreneurial Revolution: A Changing Face for Medicine -- 6. Beyond the Dollars: Progress in Health and the Role of Public Health -- Part IV. Anticipating the Next Revolution ( 2005 and Beyond) -- 7. Medical Challenges and Opportunities -- 8. Increasing Equity: Achieving Universal Health Insurance -- Notes -- Index