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Autore |
Levine Robert <1939-> |
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Titolo |
Shock therapy for America's health care system [[electronic resource] ] : why comprehensive reform is needed / / Robert A. Levine |
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Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-33376-3 |
9786612333767 |
0-313-38069-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Health care reform - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-178) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Addressing the myths about health care reform -- Evolution of the American health care system : the changing physician, organized medicine, and efforts at health care reform -- Evolution of the American health care system : hospitals, the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical device industry -- Problems with the current health care system -- Malpractice and medical negligence -- Comprehensive health care reform -- Proposals for U.S. health care reform and a brief survey of other nations' health care systems -- Obstacles to comprehensive reform. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From a veteran physician comes this remarkably clear-eyed look at what's wrong with how we administer and pay for health care and what can be done to fix it. ||In Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System: Why Comprehensive Reform Is Needed, Dr. Robert Levine offers an easily understandable diagnosis of the problems plaguing our current health care infrastructure, with discussions that include the roles of various stakeholders-insurance companies, ""big pharma,"" hospitals, health care providers, and patients. He also dispels a number of myths designed to make voters leery of any reform |
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