The accidental system : health care policy in America / / Michael D. Reagan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965969903321
• Autore: Reagan Michael D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boulder, Colo., : Westview Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0-429-97651-8; 0-367-31824-5; 0-429-96543-5; 0-429-49688-5; 1-283-30106-7; 9786613301062; 0-8133-4701-7; 1-4294-8755-0
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Collana: Dilemmas in American politics
• Disciplina: 362.1/0973
• Soggetti: Medical care - United States; Medical policy - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Photos; List of Acronyms; 1: The Basic Dilemma: Is Health Care a Right or a Market Commodity?; What's Wrong with the Market Model?; Is There an Ethical "Right" to Health Care?; 2: The Accidental System; The Early Years,; HMOs and Prospective Payment,; The Public Sector: Niche Health Care,; Where Are Current Trends Leading?; 3: The Stakeholders and the Policy Process; The Clinton Health Plan Debacle and Its Aftermath,; Federalism Is Alive and Well in Health Care,; The Cast of Characters and Their Strategies,; 4: Beneath the Dilemmas, the TrilemmaHow Do We Define Quality Care?; Health Care Costs: How High the Moon?; Is the Insured Population Increasing? No,; So, What's the Trilemma?; 5: Medicare and Medicaid: The Entitlement Dilemmas; What Does Medicare Cost the Taxpayers? The Seniors?; Medicare: The Policy Dilemmas,; Medicaid: Medicare's Poor Relation,; 6: Good Health at Lower Cost: How Do Other ; Nations Do It?; Canada: Mixed Funding and Provincial Responsibility,; United Kingdom: Socialism with Private Beds,; Germany: Public Framework, Private Operation,; To Each Its Own,; 7: Managed Care: Boon or Bane? Both! 107A Managed Care Profile,; The Case for Managed Care,; The Case Against Managed Care,; The Bottom Line? A Mixed Verdict,; 8: Controlling Costs: Mission Impossible?; Cost Cutting-Business Style,; Better Treatments Lead to Lower Costs,; Can the United States Change Its Culture of Medicine?; 9: A Sensible Wild Idea: Universalize Medicare; Americans Will Live with the Dilemma-But Not Forever,; Light at the End of the Health Care Tunnel?; A Simple Idea: Universalize Medicare,; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With the demise of the Clinton health care reform plan, the debate on health care changed but did not subside. From opinion pieces in newspapers to dinner-table conversations, the debate over whether the right to quality health care is a public right, akin to educating our children, or whether it is a private one, akin to life insurance, continues. In The Accidental System Michael Reagan shows that in the American political context, health care is neither exclusively a public right nor a private privilege. This insightful policy study provides students with an excellent demonstration of how public policy intersects with private markets.

Creoles, contact, and language change : linguistics and social implications / / edited by Genevieve Escure, Armin Schwegler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956749003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, c2004
• ISBN: 9786612160202; 9781282160200; 1282160206; 9789027295088; 9027295085
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 27
• Classificazione: EE 1650
• Altri autori (Persone): EscureGeneviève; SchweglerArmin <1955->
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetti: Creole dialects; Languages in contact; Linguistic change
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Creoles, Contact, and Language Change -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The origins of Macanese reduplication -- References -- Notes -- 2. Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan -- References -- Notes -- Archival sources -- 3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras -- References -- Notes -- 4. The Nova Scotia-Sierra Leone connection -- Appendix -- References -- Notes -- 5. The development of variable NP plural agreement in a restructured African variety of Portuguese -- References -- Notes -- 6. Second language acquisition in creole genesis -- Notes -- References -- 7. OT and the acquisition of Jamaican syllable structure -- References -- Notes -- 8. Double-object constructions in two Frenchbased creoles (Morisyen and Seselwa) -- References -- Notes -- 9. Passive voice in Papiamento -- References -- Notes -- 10. Tone assignment on lexical items of English and African origin in Krio -- References -- 11. TMA and the St. Lucian Creole verb phrase -- References -- Notes -- 12. The Limonese calypso as an identity marker -- Discography -- ; References -- Notes -- 13. The speech event kuutu in the Eastern Maroon community -- References -- Notes -- 14. Reflexivity in French-based creoles -- Sources -- References -- Notes -- 15. The role of style and identity in the development of Hawaiian Creole -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Creole Language Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax.