Format:
1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:
9780815701996
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9780815703457
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9780815730095
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9780815730088
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081573008X
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9781282131316
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0815730098
Content:
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution was established to foster policy innovation from leading economic thinkersideas based on evidence and experience, not ideology and doctrine. The overall goal is to promote America's long-term economic growth, and economic security for American families. This important book brings The Hamilton Project's approach to one of the most critical issues facing Americans todayhealth care. In Who Has the Cure? a team of noted economists and policy analysts emphasizes the importance of universal health carenot just its value to individual and families, but also the overall economy. They examine in detail four policy alternatives for achieving universal health insurance coverage that would also improve efficiency in the health care industry. The contributors to this volume also evaluate proposales designed to make health care more affordable and effective. Among the possible strategies studied here are an expansion of preventive care, income-related cost sharing, and reform of Medicare's prescription drug benefit.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Universal, Effective, and Affordable Health Insurance -- Achieving Universal Coverage through Medicar Part E(veryone) -- Evolving beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance -- A Comprehensive Cure -- Taking Massachusetts National -- Mending the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit -- The Promise of Progressive Cost Consciousness in Health Care Reform -- A Wellness Trust to Prioritieze Disease Prevention -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Universal, Effective, and Affordable Health Insurance; Achieving Universal Coverage through Medicar Part E(veryone); Evolving beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance; A Comprehensive Cure; Taking Massachusetts National; Mending the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit; The Promise of Progressive Cost Consciousness in Health Care Reform; A Wellness Trust to Prioritieze Disease Prevention; Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780815730095
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780815730095
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=472719
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