04220oam 2200697I 450 991082018660332120230814231613.00-429-97651-80-367-31824-50-429-96543-50-429-49688-51-283-30106-797866133010620-8133-4701-71-4294-8755-0(CKB)1000000000476196(EBL)782174(OCoLC)756484348(SSID)ssj0000096488(PQKBManifestationID)12033158(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096488(PQKBWorkID)10081882(PQKB)11037171(MiAaPQ)EBC782174(OCoLC)1029237459(FlBoTFG)9780429496882(EXLCZ)99100000000047619620181122h20181999 uy 0engur||| |||||txtccrThe Accidental System Health Care Policy In America /by Michael D ReaganFirst edition.Boca Raton, FL :Routledge,[2018].©1999.1 online resource (334 p.)Dilemmas in American PoliticsIncludes index.0-8133-9997-1 0-8133-9996-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexWith 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.Dilemmas in American politics.Medical policyUnited StatesMedical careUnited StatesMedical policyMedical care362.1/0973362.10973Reagan Michael D141164FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910820186603321The Accidental System3996148UNINA