An Introduction to the US Health Care SystemSpringer Publishing Company, 25/05/2007 - 328 من الصفحات Completely expanded and updated to account for the latest changes in the U.S. health care system, this best-selling text remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the domestic health care system. Like its predecessors, it provides an accessible overview of the basic components of the system: healthcare personnel, hospitals and other institutions, the federal government, financing and payment mechanisms, and managed care. Finally, it provides an insightful look at the prospects for health care reform. Steven Jonas, a revered expert in public health, has enlisted his colleagues, Drs. Raymond and Karen Goldsteen, to add their expertise in public health and health policy and management to this outstanding volume. All students of health care administration and policy, as well as practicing healthcare professionals who simply want a relatively brief overview of the system, will find it useful. |
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But it is amazing how much money and time these other areas of power and control, such as the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, spend to make sure that the United States does not have a single national structure for paying for, ...
Most significant in terms of its impact on national health policy is the pharmaceutical industry (Strongin, 2002). Second are the commercial health insurance companies (see chapter 6), as well as those insurance companies providing ...
In 2004, almost 13.8 million people, about 9.9% of all persons employed in the United States, were working in the health care industry (National Center for Health Statistics [NCHS], 2005, Table 104). More than 41% of them worked in ...
... state and local health services, the pharmaceutical industry, and the like. Among the several medical specialties, the largest numbers were found in internal medicine (about 96,000), general and family practice (about 72,000), ...
The other, developed as the for-profit managed care industry has spread, is to act as the gatekeeper for the system, controlling the use of hospital and specialist care, at least as much for fiscal as for medical reasons.
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Chapter 3 Hospitals and Other Health Care Institutions | 63 |
Chapter 4 Primary and Ambulatory Care | 83 |
Chapter 5 Government and the Health Care System | 107 |
Chapter 6 Financing | 129 |
Chapter 7 Health Care System Performance | 167 |
Chapter 8 From Prepaid Group Medical Practice to Managed Care | 205 |
Chapter 9 Health Care Reform | 227 |
Epilogue | 263 |
List of Critical Reports on the US Health Care Delivery System 19272006 | 275 |
Sources of Data | 279 |
Glossary of Terms | 285 |
Index | 295 |