Abstract: Preface to the Second Edition vii Introduction 1 Part I: The Uninsured, Health Costs, and Public Programs The U.S. Health System: On a Road to Nowhere? / Jonathan Oberlander 5 Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health / Uwe E. Reinhardt 25 From Bismarck to Medicare - A Brief History of Medical Payment In America / Donald L. Madison 31 The Sad History of Health Cost Containment as Told in One Chart / Drew E. Altman and Larry Levitt 67 The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Cost Inflation / Henry J. Aaron 70 The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost: Containment as Told In One Chart / Thomas Bodenheimer 73 Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs / Lawrence d. Brown and Michael S. Sparer 76 Part II: Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing Bedside Manna / Deborah Stone 95 Must Good HMOs Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health / Robert Kuttner 107 Defending My Life / Geov Parrish 119 Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed / Wendy K. Mariner 128 The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation / George J. Annas 150 Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Canada / Jafna L. Cox 158 Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization / Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein 167 Part III: International Perspectives and Emerging Issues Reforming the Health System: The Universal Dilemma / Uwe E. Reinhardt 179 Health in Four Nations / Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach 199 Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda / Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook 230 What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States? / Victor R. Fuchs 240 Primary - Market Innovation or Threat to Access? / Troyen A. Brennan 246 Correspondence: Response to Luxury Primary Care 255 Limiting Health for the Old / Daniel Callahan 260 Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equaity and Age-Based Rationing / Robert H. Binstock 267 Index to Authors 285 About the Editors 287
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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