Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (139 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0231146035
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0231518617
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0231146027
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9780231146036
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9780231518611
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9780231146029
Serie:
A Columbia / SSRC book
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
The transformation of American health insurance / Jill Quadagno & J. Brendan McKelvey -- Uninsured in America: new realties, new risks / Katherine Swartz -- Get sick, go broke / Deborah Thorne & Elizabeth Warren -- Just how good is American medical care? / Elizabeth A. McGlynn, David Meltzer, & Jacob S. Hacker -- The new push for American health security / Jacob S. Hacker
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780231146029
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ISBN 0231146027
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ISBN 9780231146036
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ISBN 0231146035
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Health at risk New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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