US Health Policy and Health Care Delivery: Doctors, Reformers, and Entrepreneurs

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Synopsis
The unique composition and configuration of doctors and hospitals in the US is leading to a crisis in primary care provision.

There are significantly more specialists than generalists, and many community hospitals and outpatient facilities are concentrated in affluent areas with high rates of comprehensive insurance coverage. These particular features present difficult challenges to policymakers seeking to increase access to care. Carl F. Ameringer shows why the road to universal healthcare is not built on universal finance alone. Policymakers in other countries successfully align finance with delivery to achieve better access, lower costs, and improved population health.

This book explains how the US healthcare system developed, and why efforts to expand insurance coverage in the absence of significant changes to delivery could make things worse.

Copyright:
2018

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ISBN-13:
9781108586788
Related ISBNs:
9781107117204, 9781107117204
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Carl F. Ameringer
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Medicine
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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