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Author : Diane Rowland
Publisher : Henry J Kaiser Family
ISBN 13 : 9780944525104
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Medicaid at the Crossroads written by Diane Rowland and published by Henry J Kaiser Family. This book was released on 1992 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brook Chambery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735027210
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book 50 Years of Failure written by Brook Chambery and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans know that our healthcare system is too expensive and unjustifiably complex. They feel hemmed in by the lack of options. They do not comprehend what they are buying, and they feel powerless to influence their own purchasing decisions. Understandably frustrated, our first instinct is to lash out at the greed of drug makers and providers. In this, we fail to recognize that the outrage, however justified, is misdirected.To understand what went so wrong with American healthcare, we must go back 50 years, to the 1960s with the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid, and the regulatory and reimbursement provisions that followed. We must realize the effect that these had on the structure of the healthcare industry and the provision of care in this country. As grand and glorious as these public policy visions were, they lacked sound foundational planning, and they continue to suffer from irrational implementation. Relentless tweaks through half a century have only compounded the problems. This book uses Congressional reports and audits to conclusively demonstrate how fatally complex and utterly lost our healthcare policy has become. Congress has failed in its mission to deliver healthcare at a reasonable cost for the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and it has succeeded in establishing a regulatory environment that prevents the marketplace from delivering efficient and effective solutions for everyone. Yet, instead of focusing on the evidence before it, Congress is influenced by partisan voices and persists in passing legislation that only make matters worse.50 Years of Failed Healthcare Policy will leave no doubt about the inadequacies of bureaucratic fiat to design and control 20% of our economy, and the need to permit the competitive market forces that drive other industries to determine care, how it is delivered, and at what price. It is time, at long last, to obtain the elusive goal of quality and efficiency in healthcare by putting the consumer in control.
Author : Richard Allen Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 144197136X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Healthcare Disparities at the Crossroads with Healthcare Reform written by Richard Allen Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon the success of Dr. Williams's widely influential book Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report, this new volume takes a fresh and timely look at the state of healthcare reform and the progress and problems we face in the pursuit of healthcare equality. This book focuses on how the elimination of disparities can be accomplished through targeted efforts made within the context of reform. Comprising the combined efforts of the nation's best health policy analysts, researchers, key opinion leaders and clinicians, this book addresses both current and impending legislation and future movements in healthcare. With the knowledge that the problem of disparities extends beyond the present political arena into the larger scope of all aspects of healthcare delivery, the authors provide critical analysis of the causation of disparities, insightful examples of what has worked, and a striking call to action with implementable strategies for advancing equality.
Author : Brook Chambery
Publisher : Brook Chambery
ISBN 13 : 1735027235
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)
Download or read book 50 YEARS OF FAILURE written by Brook Chambery and published by Brook Chambery. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is at a crossroads in healthcare policy. We cannot afford the status quo any longer. Our healthcare system is too expensive, unjustifiably complex, lacking in transparency, and short on viable options. It offers consumers almost no voice in their own purchasing decisions. The resulting frustration often turns to outrage misdirected at the providers, which prompts cries for more government regulation. The irony is that regulation, excessive, irrational, and ineffectual, is at the root of our discontent. Few Americans understand this because few understand the dysfunctional system that Congress has put in place over the last 50 years. If we are to take charge of our healthcare destiny, we need first to understand the state of the industry, how we have gotten to this unsustainable and intolerable point, and learn from our past mistakes. 50 Years of Failure offers a unique approach to gaining a fresh perspective on American healthcare. Using Congressional reports, audits, and other publicly available information the public almost never sees let alone uses, this book reveals how Congress has failed in its mission to deliver healthcare at a reasonable cost via Medicare, Medicaid, and other government programs while simultaneously succeeding in preventing a free marketplace from delivering efficient and effective solutions for everyone. 50 Years of Failure delineates and details the inadequacies of bureaucratic fiat to effectively design and beneficially control 20% of our economy. It demonstrates the urgent imperative for Congress to change course and permit competitive market forces that drive other industries to determine how care is delivered, and at what price. Without our immediate action, we may forever lose the ability to achieve the goal of quality, efficiency, and consumer choice in American healthcare.
Author : Paul Starr
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206666
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Remedy and Reaction written by Paul Starr and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues. Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings to its current uncertain prospects, Paul Starr argues that the United States ensnared itself in a trap through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. He reveals the inside story of the rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early 1990sùand of the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed. And he explains the curious tale of how Mitt RomneyÆs reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats and then follows both the passage of those reforms under Obama and the explosive reaction they elicited from conservatives. Writing concisely and with an even hand, the author offers exactly what is needed as the debate continuesùa penetrating account of how health care became such treacherous terrain in American politics.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309101743
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Emergency Medical Services written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-06-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is a critical component of our nation's emergency and trauma care system, providing response and medical transport to millions of sick and injured Americans each year. At its best, EMS is a crucial link to survival in the chain of care, but within the last several years, complex problems facing the emergency care system have emerged. Press coverage has highlighted instances of slow EMS response times, ambulance diversions, trauma center closures, and ground and air medical crashes. This heightened public awareness of problems that have been building over time has underscored the need for a review of the U.S. emergency care system. Emergency Medical Services provides the first comprehensive study on this topic. This new book examines the operational structure of EMS by presenting an in-depth analysis of the current organization, delivery, and financing of these types of services and systems. By addressing its strengths, limitations, and future challenges this book draws upon a range of concerns: • The evolving role of EMS as an integral component of the overall health care system. • EMS system planning, preparedness, and coordination at the federal, state, and local levels. • EMS funding and infrastructure investments. • EMS workforce trends and professional education. • EMS research priorities and funding. Emergency Medical Services is one of three books in the Future of Emergency Care series. This book will be of particular interest to emergency care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the deficiencies in emergency care systems.
Author : Charlene Harrington
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763707538
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Health Policy written by Charlene Harrington and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrington (sociology and nursing, University of California-San Francisco) and Estes (sociology, University of California-San Francisco) look at policy issues at the forefront of modern health care delivery in an effort to persuade health professionals to add political work to their lives. Contributors overview health policy and the political proce
Author : Susanne M. DeCrane
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589012417
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Aquinas, Feminism, and the Common Good written by Susanne M. DeCrane and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To dismiss the work of philosophers and theologians of the past because of their limited perceptions of the whole of humankind is tantamount to tossing the tot out with the tub water. Such is the case when feminist scholars of religion and ethics confront Thomas Aquinas, whose views of women can only be described as misogynistic. Rather than dispense with him, Susanne DeCrane seeks to engage Aquinas and reflect his otherwise compelling thought through the prism of feminist theology, hermeneutics, and ethics. Focusing on one of Aquinas's great intellectual contributions, the fundamental notion of "the common good"—in short, the human will toward peace and justice—DeCrane demonstrates the currency of that notion through a contemporary social issue: women's health care in the United States and, specifically, black women and breast cancer. In her skillful re-engagement with Aquinas, DeCrane shows that certain aspects of religious traditions heretofore understood as oppressive to women and minority groups can actually be parsed, "retrieved," and used to rectify social ills. Aquinas, Feminism, and the Common Good is a bold and intellectually rigorous feminist retrieval of an important text by a Catholic scholar seeking to remain in the tradition, while demanding that the tradition live up to its emphasis on human equity and justice.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Health Care Financing Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Morone
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195170660
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair written by James A. Morone and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health policy experts chart the stark disparities in health & wealth in the United States. The authors explain how the inequities arise, why they persist, & what makes them worse.
Author : Welfare Simplification and Coordination Advisory Committee (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Time for a Change written by Welfare Simplification and Coordination Advisory Committee (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julio Arboleda-Flórez
Publisher : Pan American Health Org
ISBN 13 : 9789275073766
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Acceso a Los Servicios de Salud en El Marco Del TLC written by Julio Arboleda-Flórez and published by Pan American Health Org. This book was released on 1999 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may not imply changes in the immigration laws of its signatories, but it will make it easier for people to move freely among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. One of the concerns arising from NAFTA involves meeting the health care needs of people who move from one member country to another. The publication analyzes the legal implications of the access to health care by individuals from NAFTA countries who are temporarily working or residing in another member country. The book compares the health systems of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, focusing on their principles and objectives, legal framework, institutional structure, operational modalities, and outcomes. Detailing the similarities and differences among the systems of these three countries, this publication attempts to anticipate the treaty's potential benefit or detriment to access to health care services and examines the expectations and concerns that free trade generates in this respect.
Author : Francis G. Caro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134731949
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Family and Aging Policy written by Francis G. Caro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how public policies can help families provide the care their elderly relatives need Family and Aging Policy examines how public initiatives to assist the elderly in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Denmark, and Sweden can impact families who provide them with long-term care. For the majority of older people, the aging experience involves their families directly and indirectly, affecting income security, housing, and health care. This unique book addresses the aging issues that matter most to families struggling to deal with the demands of care giving and provides answers on how the public sector can help. As the traditional nuclear family becomes a memory and the notion of extended family disappears, the need for public interventions to help the elderly increases. A significant number of people grow old without families they can depend on. Others have families who want to help, but lack the financial means or the housing needed to provide care. Family and Aging Policy offers options on how families and formal services can share responsibilities, including how families can juggle jobs and care giving, the effects of the Family and Medical Leave Act, consumer-directed service options, community-based care programs, accessory dwelling units and zoning ordinances, and provisions for caregiver support in each of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. Family and Aging Policy examines: extensive welfare programs in Sweden publicly funded home care programs in Denmark family-oriented social policies in Singapore shared responsibilities of families and formal services in Canada the Administration on Aging’s National Family Caregiver Support program in the United States California Caregiver Resource Centers and much more! Family and Aging Policy is an invaluable tool for researchers and policy analysts working in family policy issues and as an essential supplemental text for course work in gerontology, sociology, family relations, and social work.
Author : William R. Kelly
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539223
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Criminal Justice at the Crossroads written by William R. Kelly and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, and victimization but also created an incredibly inefficient system that routinely fails the public, taxpayers, crime victims, criminal offenders, their families, and their communities. Strategies that focus on behavior change are much more productive and cost effective for reducing crime than punishment, and in this book, William R. Kelly discusses the policy, process, and funding innovations and priorities that the United States needs to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, victimization, and cost. He recommends proactive, evidence-based interventions to address criminogenic behavior; collaborative decision making from a variety of professions and disciplines; and a focus on innovative alternatives to incarceration, such as problem-solving courts and probation. Students, professionals, and policy makers alike will find in this comprehensive text a bracing discussion of how our criminal justice system became broken and the best strategies by which to fix it.
Author : Colleen M. Grogan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199812233
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Grow and Hide written by Colleen M. Grogan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The public health care state has developed as completely decentralized, in collaboration with voluntary organizations, and under the banner of "non-political" scientific agencies. The early history of this system explains how and why public health leaders were able to hide its growth in later periods. Understanding this foundational history is important for three reasons. First, the state-voluntary collaboration shaped the U.S. health care system, leaving it fragmented and unequal. Second, leaders in the public health coalition characterized the state's close collaboration with the voluntary sector as "private provision," abetting the beginning of the American Myth and setting the stage for grow-and-hide. And third, this formative history provides insight as to why the mixture of public and private "has been so ubiquitous in American history as to be almost invisible.""--
Author : Laura Katz Olson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231521596
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Medicaid written by Laura Katz Olson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, the United States government enacted legislation to provide low-income individuals with quality health care and related services. Initially viewed as the friendless stepchild of Medicare, Medicaid has grown exponentially since its inception, becoming a formidable force of its own. Funded jointly by the national government and each of the fifty states, the program is now the fourth most expensive item in the federal budget and the second largest category of spending for almost every state. Now, under the new, historic health care reform legislation, Medicaid is scheduled to include sixteen million more people. Laura Katz Olson, an expert on health, aging, and long-term care policy, unravels the multifaceted and perplexing puzzle of Medicaid with respect to those who invest in and benefit from the program. Assessing the social, political, and economic dynamics that have shaped Medicaid for almost half a century, she helps readers of all backgrounds understand the entrenched and powerful interests woven into the system that have been instrumental in swelling costs and holding elected officials hostage. Addressing such fundamental questions as whether patients receive good care and whether Medicaid meets the needs of the low-income population it is supposed to serve, Olson evaluates the extent to which the program is an appropriate foundation for health care reform.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Securing Medicaid's Future written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
