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Too Much Medicine : A Doctor’s Prescription For Better And More Affordable Health Care

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Dennis Gottfried
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Book, 1st ed, Paragon House, 2009
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Medical care, Cost of · United States · Medical care · Cost control · Health care reform · Health Services · trends · Health Care Costs · Health Care Reform · Health Care Sector · Gottfried, Dennis, 1946-
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Critical : What We Can Do About The Health-care Crisis

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Tom Daschle ; with Scott S. Greenberger and Jeanne M. Lambrew
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Book, 1st ed, Thomas Dunne Books, 2008
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Health care reform · United States · Medical policy · Medical care · United States. · sears · Health insurance · Government policy · Health Care Reform · Delivery of Health Care · economics · Health Policy · Insurance, Health · Medically Uninsured · Quality of Health Care · Daschle, Thomas · Greenberger, Scott S · Lambrew, Jeanne M
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The Healing Of America : A Global Quest For Better, Cheaper, And Fairer Health Care

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T.R. Reid
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Book, Penguin Press, 2009
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Medical policy · United States · Health care reform · Medical care · Delivery of Health Care · Developed Countries · Health Care Reform · Universal Coverage · Reid, T. R
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Healthcare, Guaranteed : A Simple, Secure Solution For America

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Ezekiel J. Emanuel ; with a foreword by Victor R. Fuchs
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Book, 1st ed, PublicAffairs, 2008
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By eliminating employer-healthcare and establishing an independent program to evaluate healthcare plans and insurance companies, he offers a no-nonsense guide to how government can institute private insurance options that will allow each of us a choice of doctor and plan. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Medical care · United States · Health care reform · Health insurance · Insurance, Health · Delivery of Health Care · economics · Health Care Reform · Universal Coverage · Emanuel, Ezekiel J., 1957-
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Howard Dean’s Prescription For Real Healthcare Reform : How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care For Every American And Make Our Jobs Safer

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Howard Dean ; with Igor Volsky, and Faiz Shakir
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Book, Chelsea Green Pub, 2009
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- Publisher description
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“The success of healthcare reform legislation rises and falls on whether the American public is allowed to opt into a universally available public healthcare program, like Medicare, or not. In this straight-talking guide to rising above today?s healthcare crisis, Dean spells out:What Obama?s healthcare plan is all about How other countries handle healthcare Which special interests are standing in the way of progress and why How healthcare reform will help American businesses prosper Why Americans need choice–between private or public health coverage Millions of Americans lack health insurance; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Health care reform · United States · Health Care Reform · Insurance, Health · Dean, Howard, 1948- · Volsky, Igor, 1986- · Shakir, Faiz, 1979-
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Health At Risk : America’s Ailing Health System–and How To Heal It

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edited by Jacob S. Hacker
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Book, Columbia University Press, 2008
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In this volume, the nation’s leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America’s ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country’s health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care to declining levels of insurance coverage, medical bankruptcy, and the growing enthusiasm for health plans that put patients in charge of risk and cost. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Health care reform · United States · Medical policy · Insurance, Health · Health Care Reform · Health Services Accessibility · Insurance Coverage · Hacker, Jacob S
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Differential Diagnoses : A Comparative History Of Health Care Problems And Solutions In The United States And France

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Paul V. Dutton
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Book, ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2007
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Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, ranked thirty-seventh in a comprehensive World Health Organization report. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Social medicine · United States · History · 20th century · France · Medical policy · Medical care · Health insurance · Health Services · history · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Health Care Reform · Health Policy · History, 20th Century · Insurance, Health · Dutton, Paul V
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Rx For Health Care Reform

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Ken Terry ; foreword by Paul B. Ginsburg
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Book, 1st ed, Vanderbilt University Press, 2007
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In this readable and well-researched book, Ken Terry analyzes the current state of health care reform and finds it wanting. Instead of tackling the core problems in our failing system, he argues, politicians, insurance executives, and health care leaders have embraced ideologically driven initiatives that pursue impractical objectives or will take too long to bear fruit. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Health care reform · United States · Medical policy · Medical care · Health Care Reform · Health Care Sector · Terry, Ken, 1948-
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Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007 : The Health Spending Challenge

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Alice M. Rivlin and Joseph R. Antos, editors
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Book, Brookings Institution Press, 2007
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Focusing on policies that do not shift costs to the states or the private sector, the authors of Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007 suggest reforms in federal programs that have the potential to reduce the growth of spending for the entire health system, increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the care provided, and enhance health outcomes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Medical care, Cost of · United States · Medical care · Cost control · Health care reform · Economic aspects · Medical economics · Health Expenditures · Health Care Reform · economics · National Health Programs · Rivlin, Alice M · Antos, Joseph R · Brookings Institution
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A Second Opinion : Rescuing America’s Healthcare : A Plan For Universal Coverage Serving Patients Over Profit

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Arnold S. Relman
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Book, 1st ed, PublicAffairs, 2007
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This book, based on sixty years’ experience in medicine, is a clarion call not just to politicians and patients but to the medical profession to evolve a new structure for healthcare, based on voluntary private contracts between individuals and not-for-profit, multi-specialty groups of physicians. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Health care reform · United States · Health Care Reform · Relman, Arnold S., 1923-
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Medicine And The Market : Equity V. Choice

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Daniel Callahan, Angela A. Wasunna
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Book, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
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This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both developed and developing countries, and among the very few that have tried to evaluate the actual health and economic impact of market theory and practices in a wide range of national settings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Medical economics · Medical care · Marketing · Health services administration · Medical ethics · Health Care Sector · ethics · Health Care Reform · Health Services Needs and Demand · Callahan, Daniel, 1930- · Wasunna, Angela A., 1973-
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The Politics Of AIDS In Africa

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Amy S. Patterson
Publication Details
Book, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006
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- Table of contents
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AIDS (Disease) · Africa · Social aspects · Government policy · Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome · prevention & control · Health Care Reform · National Health Programs · Politics · Socioeconomic Factors · Patterson, Amy S
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(UPPER LEVEL) RA643.86.A35 P378 2006 AVAILABLE

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Medicare : A Policy Primer

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Marilyn Moon
Publication Details
Book, Urban Institute Press, 2006
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- Table of contents
Description
For some, Medicare is a model of what national health insurance could be in the United States. In Medicare: A Policy Primer, Marilyn Moon explains what Medicare is, how it works, and where is it headed. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Medicare · Medical policy · United States · Health care reform · organization & administration · Consumer Satisfaction · Health Care Reform · Moon, Marilyn
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(UPPER LEVEL) RA412.3 .M658 2006 AVAILABLE

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Policy Challenges In Modern Health Care

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edited by David Mechanic … [et al.]
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Book, Rutgers University Press, 2004
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Bringing together twenty-five of the nation’s leading experts in health care policy and public health, this book provides a much-needed perspective on how our health care system evolved, why we face the challenges that we do, and why reform is so difficult to achieve. David Mechanic is the director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University and the national program director of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Medical policy · United States · Health care reform · Health services accessibility · Mechanic, David, 1936-
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Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives : Social Sector Reform, Democratization, And Globalization In Latin America

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edited by Robert R. Kaufman and Joan M. Nelson
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Book, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004
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- PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
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Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives studies the politics of efforts to reform education and health services in Latin America in the 1990s. Both sectors were common targets of reform — education because of its economic importance, health care because of needs to reduce great inequities of access and opportunities to increase domestic savings presented by reforms. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Health care reform · Latin America · Cross-cultural studies · Medical policy · Educational change · Education and state · Kaufman, Robert R · Nelson, Joan M
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