Health insurance and public policy : risk, allocation, and equity
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Health insurance and public policy : risk, allocation, and equity
（Contributions in political science, no. 299）
Greenwood Press, 1992
- : alk. paper
Available at 24 libraries
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"Prepared under the auspices of the Policy Studies Organization."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-211) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
One of the most urgent issues facing the United States today is how to establish a comprehensive health insurance program at a time when nearly one in seven Americans lack insurance and costs for health care and medical fees are increasing at about 20 percent annually. An interdisciplinary team of experts provides a unique overview of the most important current problems and speaks to the key questions of risk, allocation, and equity. This text is designed for college, university, and professional courses in health and medical policy, public policy, public administration, law and society, bioethics, nursing, science and technology, and hospital administration.
This public policy study offers a general framework for assessing health insurance from many vantage points, in terms of health policy impacts, the care of the needy, health insurance implementation, and prevention and risk. Chapters assess various national health insurance proposals, current congressional action and Medicare decisions, the social impacts of health insurance policy, coverage for displaced workers, the uninsured and hospital care in the inner city, charity care and community benefits, insuring high-risk persons, preventive health care screening for older women, and medical malpractice insurance, among other subjects. These analyses with real-life examples provide a solid introduction to all who want to understand health insurance and public policy issues today.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Miriam K. Mills Overview of Health Policy Impacts National Health Insurance: A Qualitative Assessment of Several Proposals by Robert W. Broyles, Bernard J. Reilly, and Walter J. Jones Biting the Bullet? Post-1980 Congressional Processes and Medicare Decisions by Katherine A. Hinckley and Bette S. Hill Evaluating the Social Impacts of Health Insurance Policy by Anona F. Armstrong Provision of Care for Those in Need Financing Health Care Coverage for Displaced Workers by Roger S. Vaughan and Terry F. Buss The Uninsured and Hospital Care in the Inner City: Patient Dumping, Emergency Care, and Public Policy by Mitchell F. Rice and Woodrow Jones Does Mission Really Matter? Measuring and Examining Charity Care and Community Benefit in Nonprofit Hospitals by Susan M. Sanders Health Insurance Implementation Fulfilling the Promise of Medicare by William Brandon Health Policy Goals and Firm Performance: A Transaction Cost Analysis of The Arizona Medicaid Experiment by Carol K. Jacobson Insuring Persons in High-Risk Categories by James Larson The Codification of Compassion: Impact of DRGs on Hospital Performance by Miriam K. Mills Prevention and Risk Preventive Health Care for Older Women: The Case of Breast Cancer Screening by Michelle A. Saint-Germain and Alice J. Longman Who's Afraid of Being Sued: The Medical Malpractice Insurance Controversy by Edward J. Miller Selected Bibliography Indexes
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