Unaffordable
American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump
Seiten
2018
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-31410-1 (ISBN)
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-31410-1 (ISBN)
Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk, engaging history of American healthcare from the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s. Unaffordable covers, in a conversational style punctuated by apt examples, topics ranging from health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing, and physician training to health maintenance organizations and hospital networks.
Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk, engaging history of American healthcare from the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s. Step by step, Jonathan Engel shows how we arrived at our present convoluted situation, where generic drugs prices can jump 1,000 percent in a day and primary care physicians can lose 20 percent of their income at the stroke of a Congressional pen.
Unaffordable covers, in a conversational style punctuated by apt examples, topics ranging from health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing, and physician training to health maintenance organizations and hospital networks. Along the way, Engel introduces approaches that other nations have taken in organizing and paying for healthcare and offers insights on ethical quandaries around end-of-life decisions, neonatal care, life-sustaining treatments, and the limits of our ability to define death. While describing the political origins of many of the federal and state laws that govern our healthcare system today, he never loses sight of the impact that healthcare delivery has on our wallets and on the balance sheets of hospitals, doctors' offices, government agencies, and private companies.
Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk, engaging history of American healthcare from the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s. Step by step, Jonathan Engel shows how we arrived at our present convoluted situation, where generic drugs prices can jump 1,000 percent in a day and primary care physicians can lose 20 percent of their income at the stroke of a Congressional pen.
Unaffordable covers, in a conversational style punctuated by apt examples, topics ranging from health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing, and physician training to health maintenance organizations and hospital networks. Along the way, Engel introduces approaches that other nations have taken in organizing and paying for healthcare and offers insights on ethical quandaries around end-of-life decisions, neonatal care, life-sustaining treatments, and the limits of our ability to define death. While describing the political origins of many of the federal and state laws that govern our healthcare system today, he never loses sight of the impact that healthcare delivery has on our wallets and on the balance sheets of hospitals, doctors' offices, government agencies, and private companies.
Jonathan Engel is the author of American Therapy; Poor People's Medicine; Doctors and Reformers; and The Epidemic: A History of AIDS. He is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Timeline of Major Federal Legislation
Introduction
1 A System Run Amok
2 Medical Free Markets
3 Reining in the Excess
4 The Lure of Profits
5 Efforts to Rationalize
6 HillaryCare
7 Managing Care
8 Quantity and Quality
9 Ethical Wrangling
10 Medicare and Medicaid: Evolving Government Programs
11 (Un)Affordable Care
12 Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Wisconsin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 520 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-299-31410-3 / 0299314103 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-299-31410-1 / 9780299314101 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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