1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957968803321

Autore

Luft Harold S

Titolo

Total cure : the antidote to the health care crisis / / Harold S. Luft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

9780674040366

0674040368

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/04250973

Soggetti

Health care reform - United States

Medical policy - United States

Health planning - United States

Health insurance - United States

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

Build on what you've got, but recognize real-world constraints -- Overview of a restructured health care system -- Covering the cost of care: rethinking health insurance -- Organizing care and paying providers -- Choices: harnessing data to inform decisions -- Financing SecureChoice -- Malpractice, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and prevention -- How SecureChoice would work for patients and physicians -- Getting there: policy choices, implementation, and transition.

Sommario/riassunto

Proposals to reform the health care system typically focus on either increasing private insurance or expanding government-sponsored plans. Guaranteeing that everyone is insured, however, does not create a system with the quality of care patients want, the flexibility clinicians need, and the internal dynamics to continually improve the value of health care. Luft presents a comprehensive new proposal, SecureChoice, which does all that while providing affordable health insurance for every American.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955305203321

Autore

Olsakova Doubravka

Titolo

In the Name of the Great Work : Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe / / ed. by Doubravka Olšáková

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

9781789205022

1789205026

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 311 pages)

Collana

Environment in History: International Perspectives ; ; 10

Classificazione

NQ 8273

Disciplina

509

Soggetti

Environmental policy - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Environmental policy - Soviet Union - History

Socialism - Environmental aspects - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Nature - Effect of human beings on - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Environmental impact analysis - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Environmental degradation - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Social change - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Europe, Eastern - Environmental conditions - History - 20th century

Europe, Eastern - Social conditions - 20th century

Europe, Eastern Environmental conditions History 20th century

Europe, Eastern Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, and the East European Experience -- CHAPTER 1 Kafkaesque Paradigms: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Czechoslovakia -- CHAPTER 2 Untamed Seedlings: Hungary and Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature -- CHAPTER 3 The Conspiracy of Silence: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Poland -- Conclusion: Environmental



History, East European Societies, and Totalitarian Regimes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war-fatigued publics alike. By the time of Stalin’s death, however, these attempts at “transformation”—which relied upon ideologically corrupted and pseudoscientific theories—had proven a spectacular failure. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—and explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.