Medical Gridlock and Health Reform

ISBN-13: 9780367009519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Eli Ginzberg

Opis

The early 1990s saw the U.S. health care system under intensifying pressures and strains as a consequence of steeply rising expenditures, an increase in the number of uninsured persons, and a range of other challenges, including increasingly severe pressures on government and employers, the principal payers for health care. As a consequence of these and other dysfunctional developments, Eli Ginzberg explored and assessed the problems and the transformations underway in the financing of U.S. health care and in the delivery of services. On the eve of an era of major health care reform, Medical Gridlock and Health Reform presents his findings.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- The Changing Health Care Scene: The Longest View -- Everything I Know About Health Care I Learned in the Pentagon in World War II -- The Impact of World War II on U.S. Medicine -- The Veterans Administration in a Vise -- Health Reform: Lessons from Employment, Housing, and Education -- The Reform of Medical Education -- Health Care and the Market -- The Limits of Health Reform Revisited -- Health Policy: The Old Era Passes -- Health Personnel: The Challenges Ahead -- Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations -- High-Tech Medicine -- Competition and Health Reform -- Hospitals, Doctors, and Global Budgets -- The Poor and the Uninsured -- Financing Health Care for the Poor: Second-Best Solutions -- Restructuring Health Services in New York City -- Access to Health Care for Hispanics -- Beyond Universal Health Insurance -- Toward Health Reform -- Health Care Reform: Why So Slow? -- Interest Groups and Health Reform -- Physicians and Health Care Reform -- Where Are We and Where Should We Be Going? -- President Clinton’s Design for Reform -- Credits

O autorze

Ginzberg, Eli