Introduction: the paradox of excess & deprivation -- Paying for health care -- Access to health care -- Reimbursing health care providers -- Capitation payment in managed care -- How health care is organized-I -- How health care is organized-II -- Painful verson painless cost control -- Mechanisms for controlling costs -- Long-term care -- The prevention of illness -- The quality of health care -- Medical ethics & the rationing of health care -- Health care in four nations -- National health insurance -- Conflict & change in America's health care system -- The health care workforce -- Conclusions: tensions & chanllenges -- Questions & discussion topics.
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This text covers fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, managed care and physician and hospital payment. Case histories bring to life important policy issues within the health care system and provide a clinical flavour.