Title:
Health politics and policy
Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
Clifton Park, NY : Delmar Cengage Learning, 2008
Physical Description:
xvi, 499 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781418014285
Subject Term:
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Summary
Summary
The fourth edition of Health Politics and Policy examines the political arena in which United States health care policies are made, and provides a framework for understanding how the process works. This book conveys the excitement of health care politics and covers the issues facing the American health care system. Factors that shape health policy are discussed in detail, including values, private players, and government, as well as the resulting dynamic of these forces. A comparison of the U.S. system to others offers a foundation for understanding our system within an international context.
Table of Contents
| Section I Health Politics and Policy in Perspective: The Key Concepts |
| Chapter 1 Markets and Politics in Health Care |
| Chapter 2 Values and Health Policy: Understanding Fairness and Efficiency |
| Chapter 3 Morality, Politics, and Health Policy |
| Chapter 4 Arenas in Health Policy |
| Section II Health Policy and the Political Structure |
| Chapter 5 Congress |
| Chapter 6 The President |
| Chapter 7 The Courts |
| Chapter 8 State Governments Case Study: Maine: Thinking Big, Fighting Hard |
| Chapter 9 Federalism |
| Section III The Health Policy Process: Interest Groups, Stakeholders, and Public Opinion |
| Chapter 10 The Public-Private Welfare State |
| Chapter 11 The American Health Care System |
| Chapter 12 Public Opinion |
| Chapter 13 Lobbyists: Ten Myths About Power and Influence |
| Chapter 14 Employers and Health Care: A Sick Business |
| Section IV The Outcomes: Programs, Policies, and Problems |
| Chapter 15 Shopping for Long-Term Care |
| Chapter 16 Medicare: The Great Transformation |
| Chapter 17 Medicaid: Health Care for You and Me? |
| Chapter 18 The Elderly: Health Politics Beyond Aging |
| Chapter 19 Environmental Policy and Health |
| Chapter 20 AIDS |
| Section V The United States in International Perspective |
| Chapter 21 American Health Care in International Perspective |
| Chapter 22 Devil Take the Hindmost: Private Health Insurance and the Costs of American Exceptionalism |
| Chapter 23 Taking Medicine to Market: Competition in Britain and the U.S |
| Chapter 24 Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future |
