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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459327103321

Titolo

Expanding access to health care : a management approach / / edited by Terry F. Buss and Paul N. Van de Water

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-70443-9

1-317-47084-2

1-282-55482-4

9786612554827

0-7656-2646-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Transformational trends in governance and democracy

Altri autori (Persone)

BussTerry F

Van de WaterPaul N (Paul Nicholas)

Disciplina

362.10973

Soggetti

Health insurance - United States

Health services accessibility - Economic aspects - United States

Medical care, Cost of - United States

Health care reform - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"National Academy of Public Administration."

First published 2009 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Restructuring health insurance markets / Elliot K. Wicks -- Designing regional health markets / Cori E. Uccello, John M. Bertko, and Catherine M. Murphy-Baron -- Creating a level playing field for public and private plans / Bryan Dowd -- Regulating private health insurance / Timothy Stoltzfus Jost -- Paying one's fair share for health coverage and care / Jill Bernstein -- Refiguring federalism : nation and state in health reform's next round / Lawrence D. Brown -- Recent changes in Dutch health insurance : individual mandate or social insurance? / Kieke G.H. Okma -- Administering a Medicaid-plus-tax-credits initiative / Lynn Etheredge ... [et al.] -- Administering health insurance mandates / C. Eugene Steuerle and Paul N. Van de Water -- Designing administrative organizations for health reform / Paul N. Van de Water -- Individual



health insurance plan information : too much and too little / Michael Wroblewski -- Controlling health care costs / Mark Merlis -- Simplifying administration of health insurance / Mark Merlis -- Management and performance of federal health care programs / F. Stevens Redburn and Terry F. Buss -- Performance-based management under Ryan White : the BPHC initiative / Nicole Rivers, Sandy Matava, and Terry F. Buss -- Expanding access to health care for Hispanic construction workers and their children / Xiuwen Dong, Knut Ringen, and Alissa Fujimoto -- Expanding access to health insurance for children : the state children's health insurance program, 1997-2007 / Christen Holly and Daniel P. Gitterman -- Did Medicaid/SCHIP crowd out private insurance among low-income children? / Adetokumbo B. Oluwole and Dennis G. Shea.

Sommario/riassunto

The U.S. health care system faces well-known problems: 47 million people without health insurance, rapidly rising costs that consume 16 percent of the country'e economic output, and widely uneven quality of care. Even many people with coverage are experie