Communities and Health Care: The Rochester, New York, Experiment

by Sarah F. Liebschutz

Book Overview

During the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate William J. Clinton praised Rochester's hospital experimental payment (HEP) program for containing costs and providing access to high quality health care. "If Rochester, New York, can do it with two-thirds of the cost of the rest of us," Clinton asserted, "America can do it too." This book is a detailed case study of a community that devised and implemented a unique, successful, and celebrated hospital...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580463851
• ISBN13: 9781580463850
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"