1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910671385403321

Titolo

Environmental justice: legal theory and practice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Environmental Law Institute

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962687403321

Autore

Jost Timothy S.

Titolo

Disentitlement? : the threats facing our public health care programs and a rights-based response / / Timothy S. Jost

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773753-6

1-280-48233-8

9786610482337

0-19-974905-1

1-4237-4585-X

Edizione

[Fifth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

368.4/2/00973

Soggetti

Entitlement spending

Health insurance - Law and legislation

Health care reform

Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Entitlements Matter -- 3. The Nature of American Health-Care Entitlements -- 4. The Historical Foundations of American Health-Care Entitlements -- 5. Experiments with Privatization: Medicare and Medicaid Managed Care -- 6. Medicare "Reform": Disentitlement through Privatization -- 7.



Health Insurance for the Poor: Disentitlement through Devolution -- 8. Tax Credits for Health Insurance: Disentitlement of America's Workers? -- 9. The British National Health Service: The General Revenue-Financed Model of Health-Care Entitlements -- 10. The German Health-Care System: The Social Insurance Model of Health-Care Entitlements -- 11. Toward an Entitlement-Based Health-Care System -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

Medicare, Medicaid and tax subsidies for employment related health benefits are increasingly embattled, attacked by those advocating privatization, individualization and devolution. Jost critically analyzes this movement toward disentitlement.