Rethinking Obama [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Julian Go

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461633003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bingley [England], : Emerald Group Pub., 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-35470-5; 9786613354709; 0-85724-912-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Collana: Political power and social theory, , 0198-8719 ; ; v. 22
• Altri autori (Persone): GoJulian
• Disciplina: 306.2; 320/.05
• Soggetti: Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Obama and the politics of race -- pt. 2. Scholarly controversy : the civil religion of Barack Obama.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume of ""Political Power and Social Theory"" includes a selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race & Religion. Chapters examine the complex dynamics of race relations and racial meaning in America under the Obama administration. The ""Scholarly Controversies"" section features a debate on Obama and religion in the United States. This volume will be among the first to critically assess the meanings of race and religion in America under the Obama administration, featuring controversial chapters by Phil Gorksi of Yale University and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva of Duke Universi

The Cure [[electronic resource] ] : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780914203321
• Autore: Gratzer David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Encounter Books, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-80593-2; 9786612805936; 1-59403-279-3; 1-59403-364-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/73621; 338.473621; 362.10973
• Soggetti: Capitalism -- Canada; Capitalism -- United States; Capitalism; Delivery of Health Care -- Canada; Delivery of Health Care -- United States; Health Care Reform -- Canada; Health Care Reform -- United States; Health insurance -- Canada; Health insurance -- United States; Medical care -- Cost control; Medical economics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Praise; Title Page; Dedication; Foreword; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; ONE - Dick Cheney's Heart; My Heart Surgery and Dick Cheney's; TWO - Two Days That Changed Health Care; The Beveridge Report; Overinsured in America; Why Does Health Care Cost So Much?; The Competition Problem; THREE - Nixon's Revenge; The Rise of HMOs; And the Fall; Why HMOs Failed; FOUR - The Third Way; ; Operating in the Dark (and an Alternative); A Step in the Right Direction; Responding to the Critics; Building a Market for Health Care; FIVE - Insuring America; What We All Know: 46 and 18; HillaryCare at WorkWhat to Do?; SIX - Mills' Revenge: Medicaid; A Formula for More; How Not to Reform Medicaid; Getting Serious about Medicaid Reform; SEVEN - Mills' Revenge II: Medicare; Medicare Modernization Act; The Four I's of Medicare; How Not to Reform Medicare; What Your Mailman Knows; How to Reform Medicare; EIGHT - Our Drug Problem; Importing a Bad Idea; Overinsured in America; Ever Cautious at the FDA; Faster Drug Approvals; Safer Drugs; NINE - The Hip That Changed History; The Government Temptation; The Best Health Care in the World (Unless You're Sick); My Waiting List Problem-and OursBritish and European Health Care; Isn't it better in a public system?; Public Systems, Market Reforms; TEN - The Three Keys; Making Health Insurance Portable; Shoring up Medicare; Creating a Market for Medical Progress; The Cure; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index; Copyright Page
• Sommario/riassunto: We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is American health care such a mess? In this path-breaking book--Nobel laureate Milton Friedman calls it ""fascinating and thorough""--Dr. David Gratzer goes to the heart of the problem, showing that the crisis in American health care stems largely from its addiction to outmoded and discredited e