Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930

by Beatrix Hoffman

Book Overview

In Health Care for Some , Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care. Health Care for Some shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical services--using income, race, region, insurance coverage,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226348032
• ISBN13: 9780226348032
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"