Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America

by Donald A. Barr

Book Overview

Health care reform has dominated public discourse over the past several years, and the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act, rather than quell the rhetoric, has sparked even more debate. Donald A. Barr reviews the current structure of the American health care system, describing the historical and political contexts in which it developed and the core policy issues that continue to confront us today. This comprehensive analysis introduces the various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421402181
• ISBN13: 9781421402185
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

The basics of understanding health care

In these days of intense debate over health care reform, this should be a non-fiction best-seller. Written as a textbook to inform medical students in the area of health policy, Dr. Barr integrates issues of culture, economics, and medicine in a highly readable overview of our current U.S. healthcare system. He illustrates a number of problems by contrasting the evolution of our healthcare system, and the strongly held political/cultural assumptions that underlie it, with the evolution and values underlying the Canadian system. He is realistic about the struggles of both systems. A number of U.S. practices and assumptions don't make for better medicine. This text goes a long way towards helping the reader understand the problems in ways that are necessary before tackling solutions. Dr. Barr offers several critical options (some implicit and others explicit) for improving U.S. health care.

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