Lives at Risk Single Payer National Health Insurance Around the World 1st Edition by John C Goodman, Gerald L Musgrave, Devon M Herrick ISBN 0742541525 9780742541528

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ISBN 10: 0742541525 
ISBN 13: 9780742541528
Author: John C Goodman, Gerald L Musgrave, Devon M Herrick

Virtually everyone agrees that our health care system needs reform. But what kind of reform? Some want a return to the system that prevailed in the 1950s. Others would like to see the adaptation of the government-run systems prevalent in other countries. The latter, national health insurance or single-payer health insurance, appears to be gaining ground in the United States. Before Americans find themselves participating in a health care system that has failed in every country it was adopted, we should be asking ourselves whether such a system is effective and efficient.

In Lives at Risk, the authors examine the critical failures of national health insurance systems without focusing on minor blemishes or easily correctable problems. In doing so, the purpose is to identify the problems common to all countries with national health insurance and to explain why these problems emerge. Most national health care systems are in a state of sustained internal crisis as costs rise and the stated goals of universal access and quality care are not met. In almost all cases, the reason is the same: the politics of medicine. The problems of government-run health care systems flow inexorably from the fact that they are government-run rather than market driven.

Lives at Risk Single Payer National Health Insurance Around the World 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Twenty Myths

Rights
Equality
Needs
Outcomes
Technology
Quality
Costs
Efficiency
Unnecessary Care
Administrative Costs
Priorities
Prevention
Managed Care
International Competitiveness
The Elderly
Minorities
Rural Areas
Prescription Drugs
Public Opinion
Reform
Part II: The Politics and Economics of Health Care Systems

The Politics of Medicine
Is Managed Competition the Answer?
Part III: Reforming the U.S. Health Care System

Designing an Ideal Health Care System
Designing Ideal Health Insurance

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