Health care as a right of citizenship : the continuing evolution of reform / / Gunnar Almgren

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792641903321
• Autore: Almgren Gunnar Robert <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 023154331X; 0824869702; 9780824869700; 9780824834166
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 pages)
• Collana: Columbia scholarship online
• Disciplina: 362.104250973
• Soggetti: Health care reform - United States; Medical policy - United States; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter One. Statement of the Problem: American Exceptionalism in Health Care and the Emergence of the Great Unsustainable Compromise -- Chapter Two. The Emergence of the New Era of Reform -- Chapter Three. The Theoretical Foundations for Health Care as a Social Right of Citizenship -- Chapter Four. A Principled Critique of the ACA and the ACA in an Evolutionary Perspective -- Chapter Five. A Principled Approach to Radical Health-Care Finance Reform -- Chapter Six. A Principled Approach to Essential Health- Care Delivery System Reforms -- Chapter Seven. Assessing Health- Care System Performance Against the Four Core Aims of Health- Care Policy -- Chapter Eight. Special Issues and Considerations.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Haruko Wakabayashi received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in medieval Japanese history. She is visiting faculty at Princeton University for 2010–2012. Her work has explored the uses of visual materials such as emaki in historical studies. Among her publications are numerous articles on medieval Japanese social and cultural history, both in English and Japanese, including the coedited volume, Tools of ; Culture: Japan’s Technological, Medical, and Intellectual Contacts in East Asia, 1100–1600 (Andrew E. Goble, Kenneth R. Robinson, and Harkuo Wakabayashi, eds., Association for Asian Studies, 2009). She has taught at a number of universities, including the University of Alabama, Sophia University, Meiji Gakuin University, and International Christian University." -- Publisher's descriptions.