Disentitlement?: The Threats Facing Our Public Health Care Programs and a Right-Based Response

by Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Book Overview

No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens. This book begins by exploring the deficiencies in private health insurance that account for this. It then recounts the history and examines the legal character of America's public health care entitlements - Medicare, Medicaid, and tax subsidies for employment-related health benefits. These programs are increasingly embattled, attacked by those advocating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195151437
• ISBN13: 9780195151435
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"