The Health Care Mess

How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get Out
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-674-02415-1
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

If we can decode the human genome and fashion working machines out of atoms, why can't we navigate the quagmire that is our health care system? In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s. After the advent of Medicare and Medicaid and with the progressive goal to make advances in medical care available to all, medical costs began their upward spiral. Cost control measures failed and led to the HMO revolution, turning patients into consumers and doctors into providers. The swelling ranks of Americans without any insurance at all dragged the United States to the bottom of the list of industrialized nations. Over the last century medical education was also profoundly transformed into today's powerful triumvirate of academic medical centers, schools of medicine and public health, and research programs, all of which have shaped medical practice and medical care. The authors show how the promises of medical advances have not been matched either by financing or by delivery of care. As a new crisis looms, and the existing patchwork of insurance is poised to unravel, American leaders must again take up the question of health care. This book brings the voice of reason and the promise of compromise to that debate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richmond, Julius B

Richmond, Julius B.

Fein, Rashi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Carter, Jimmy

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenversicherung

Über Autor(innen)

Carter, Jimmy
Jimmy Carter is former President of the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

Richmond, Julius B.
Julius B. Richmond, M.D., is a founder of Head Start and former Surgeon General under President Jimmy Carter. He is John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Fein, Rashi
Rashi Fein, Ph.D., was Professor of Medical Economics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School and the author of <i>Medical Care, Medical Costs: The Search for a Health Insurance Policy</i>.