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Medical care
Health care reform
Health insurance
Insurance, Health
Delivery of Health Care -- economics
Health Care Reform
Universal Coverage

Healthcare, guaranteed : a simple, secure solution for Americanteed by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Call Number: RA395.A3 E43 2008
ISBN: 1586486624
Publication Date: 2008-05-27
Beyond anecdotes -- The goals of reform -- History and havoc: the diagnosis of the problem -- The guaranteed healthcare access plan: a comprehensive cure -- Band-aids are not enough -- The mistake of mandates -- Single-payer plans: an outdated solution for modern medicine -- Opening the door to comprehensive change: will the system get better? When? How?
Health and Health Care Policy by Allyn and Bacon Editorial Staff (Editor); Stephen Gorin; Cynthia Moniz
Call Number: RA394 .M665 2003
ISBN: 9780205306725
Publication Date: 2002-09-25
pt. 1. National Health and Mental Health Policy in the United States -- 1. Efforts to Establish National Health Insurance: 1865-1946 -- 2. The Emergence of Employment-Based Insurance and Managed Care: 1943-Present -- pt. 2. The U.S. Health Care System Today -- 3. Access to Care -- 4. The Growth and Development of Managed Care -- 5. Medicare and Medicaid -- pt. 3. At-Risk and Underserved Populations -- 6. Disparities in Health: People of Color -- 7. Disparities in Health: Gender and Age-Based Differences -- pt. 4. Inequality and Health -- 8. New Directions for Health and Health Care Policy.
Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy by Marion Danis (Editor); Carolyn M. Clancy (Editor); Larry R. Churchill (Editor)
Call Number: RA395.A3 E846 2002
ISBN: 9780195140705
Publication Date: 2002-02-07
Ends and means : the goals of health care / Daniel Callahan -- Justice, health, and health policy / Norman Daniels, Bruce P. Kennedy, and Ichiro Kawachi -- What ethics can contribute to health policy / Larry R. Churchill -- Health-care policy in the United States in the 20th century / Eli Ginzberg -- Just deliberation about health care / Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson -- Reality of public policy making / John W. Kingdon -- When public opinion counts : inserting public opinion into health policy / Stanley B. Greenberg and Marion Danis -- Medical ethics in the courts / M. Gregg Bloche -- Health policy making : the role of the federal government / Jo Ivey Boufford and Philip R. Lee.; Health policy and state initiatives / Jonathan Oberlander and Lawrence D. Brown -- Private sector incentives and ethical health care / Stuart Butler -- Patient v. population : resolving the ethical dilemmas posed by treating patients as members of populations / Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- Accountability : regulating health care as a public good / Christine K. Cassel and Elaine McParland -- Perspectives on accountability : past, present, and future / Ruth E. Malone and Harold S. Luft -- Health resource allocation for vulnerable populations / Dan W. Brock -- Health policy, vulnerability, and vulnerable populations / Marion Danis and Donald L. Patrick -- Values in research : picking research priorities ethically / Bernard Lo -- Ethical considerations in conducting health-care research : protecting privacy / Lisa I. Iezzoni.
Frontline. Sick around America
Call Number: Streaming video (and) RA418.3.U6 S53 2009
ISBN: 0793670675
Publication Date: DVD video Publication year: ©2009
As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses--potentially forcing millions more Americans to go without health insurance--FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation's broken health care system and explores the need for a fundamental overhaul. This film dissects the private insurance system, a system that not only fails to cover 46 million Americans, but also leaves millions more under-insured and at risk of bankruptcy. Around the world, other developed democracies offer universal health care, requiring insurance companies to cover everyone. At its best, American health care can be very good. But not if people across the U.S. are forced into making life decisions--staying in jobs and even bad marriages--to find or keep health insurance.
The Healing of America by T. R. Reid
Call Number: RA395.A3 R435 2009
ISBN: 1594202346
Publication Date: 2009-08-20
Prologue: A moral question -- A quest for two cures -- Different models, common principles -- The paradox -- France : the vital card -- Germany : "applied Christianity" -- Japan : Bismarck on rice -- The U.K. : universal coverage; no bills -- Canada : "sorry to keep you waiting" -- Out of pocket -- Too big to change? -- An apple a day -- The first question -- Major surgery -- Appendix: The best health care system in the world
"New York Times"-bestselling author Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the U.S. can't seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost
Health and Mental Health Care Policy by Cynthia Moniz; Stephen Gorin
Call Number: RA395.A3 M662 2007 c.2
ISBN: 9780205509379
Publication Date: 2006-08-01
1. Models of health and health policy -- 2. The failure to enact national health insurance : 1865-1946 -- 3. The emergence of employment-based insurance and managed care : 1943 to the present -- 4. Access to care -- 5. The growth and development of managed care -- 6. Medicare and Medicaid -- 7. Disparities in health : people of color -- 8. Disparities in health : gender and age-based differences -- 9. Looking beyond health care.
Social Work in the 21st Century by Michael Reisch; Eileen D. Gambrill (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781452246413
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
This collection of original essays from leaders in the profession comments on the current state of social work in the United States, and how it ought to change, in light of social change in the US and the world as a whole.