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

• Autore: Jost Timothy S.
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Edizione: Fifth edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 pages)
• Disciplina: 368.4/2/00973
• Soggetto topico: Entitlement spending; Health insurance - Law and legislation; Health care reform; Society
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disentitlement
• ISBN: 0-19-773753-6; 1-280-48233-8; 9786610482337; 0-19-974905-1; 1-4237-4585-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910962687403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.