Full Description
Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach covers fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. Extensive case histories drawn from the authors' medical practices bring to life important policy issues by pinpointing individual encounters within the health care system and give this book an authentic clinical flavor.
Contents
1. Introduction: The Changing US Health Care System; 2. Paying for Health Care; 3. Access to Health Care; 4. Reimbursing Health Care Providers; 5. Capitation Payment in Managed Care; 6. How Health Care Is Organized - I; 7. How Health Care Is Organized - II; 8. Painful Versus Painless Cost Control; 9. Mechanisms for Controlling Costs; 10. Long-Term Care; 11. The Prevention of Illness; 12. The Quality of Health Care; 13. Medical Ethics & the Rationing of Health Care; 14. Health Care in Three Nations; 15. National Health Insurance; 16. The Ascendance of Managed Care; 17. Conclusion: Tensions & Challenges; 18. Questions & Discussion Topics; Index
