The Truth about Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America
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Book Overview
The United States spends greatly more per person on health care than any other country but the evidence shows that care is often poor and inappropriate. Despite expenditures of 1.7 trillion dollars in 2003 - an amount that grows substantially each year - services remain fragmented and poorly coordinated, and more than 46 million people are uninsured. Mechanic explains how health care in America has evolved in ways that favor a myriad of economic,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813538874
ISBN13:9780813538877
Release Date:August 2006
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:228 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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Critical Analysis by an Expert on Health Care
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
A slim volume, this book is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand and improve health care for everyone--by making the system work better for those who currently have access and helping to craft workable solutions to the millions left out. David Mechanic has been writing about health care for decades. Mechanic's incisive analysis gets at the fundamental conflicts of values and cash behind the intractable problem of health and health care in the United States.
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