Medical care in the United States

Oatman, Eric F. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0824206223
ISBN: 9780824206222
Physical Description: print
208 p. ; 19 cm.
Publisher: New York : H. W. Wilson Co., 1978.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: p. 204-208.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one. The issues -- The question of quality -- Three centuries of medical care / Robert B. Greifinger and Victor William Sidel -- Unfit doctors / New York Times -- Your doctor is cramming / Patrick Young -- How nurses rate hospital care / Time -- II. The question of costs -- Health-cost crisis / Matt Clark ... [et al.] -- Paying the doctor / Christine E. Bishop -- Why people are mad at doctors / Maurice Fox -- Costly drugs and supplies / James L. Goddard -- The cost of technology / Abigail Trafford Brett -- III. The question of payment -- Hospital costs and insurance / Martin Feldstein -- Public and private financing / Dorothy P. Rice -- Uninsured in America / Joh P. Allegrante -- Medicaid programs / Leda R. Judd -- Medicaid abuse / David C. Berliner -- Medicaid retrenchment / Robert W. Merry -- Medicare / Leda R. Judd -- The "rich" medicare docs / Lawrence Mosher -- IV. The question of availability -- Health care and the patient's needs / Mary W. Herman -- Why rural doctors are missing / John B. Dunne -- Too many doctors? / Paul Starr -- The right to health care / Benjamin B. Page -- Part two. The search for answers -- V. National health insurance -- Federal involvement in health care after 1945 / Leda R. Judd -- Needed : a national authority / Charles C. Edwards -- The dream whose time has come/ / Richard J. Margolis -- Major-risk insurance / Martin Feldstein -- AMA President discusses health-care costs / Sheila McGough -- VI. Health maintenance organizations -- Kaiser and the "desert doctors" : a way to cut medical bills / Lee Smith -- Containing the cost of employee health plans-with health maintenance organizations / Business Week -- Less may be enough / Alan Reynolds -- VII. Models from abroad -- The British National Health Service / Joseph G. Simanis -- Medical care in Sweden / Joseph L. Andrews.