Health Policy Issues,9781567932010

Health Policy Issues

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9781567932010
ISBN10: 1567932010
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): Health Administration Pr
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Summary

Like its predecessors, the third edition of Health Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective will help readers understand the issues underlying the politics and economics of health services. This policy primer uses an economic approach to explain the forces pressing for change in healthcare, as well as why the health system has evolved to its current state.

Author Biography

Paul J. Feldstein has been a professor and Robert Gumbiner Chair in Health Care Management at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine since 1987. Professor Feldstein has written six books and more than 60 articles on health care.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xv
Preface xvii
The Rise in Medical Expenditures
1(12)
How Much Should We Spend on Medical Care?
13(12)
Do More Medical Expenditures Produce Better Health?
25(12)
In Whose Interest Does the Physician Act?
37(10)
Rationing Medical Services
47(10)
How Much Health Insurance Should Everyone Have?
57(10)
Why Are Those Who Most Need Health Insurance Least Able to Buy It?
67(12)
Medicare
79(18)
Medicaid
97(12)
How Does Medicare Pay Physicians?
109(12)
Does a Physician Surplus Exist?
121(16)
The Changing Practice of Medicine
137(12)
The Malpractice Crisis
149(14)
Do Nonprofit Hospitals Behave Differently than For-profit Hospitals?
163(12)
Competition Among Hospitals: Does It Raise or Lower Costs?
175(12)
Cost Shifting
187(12)
Can Price Controls Limit Medical Expenditure Increases?
199(10)
Managed Care Competition
209(18)
How Will the Internet Change Health Care?
227(16)
American Competitiveness and Rising Health Costs
243(10)
Why Is Getting into Medical School So Difficult?
253(10)
The Shortage of Nurses
263(14)
The High Price of Prescription Drugs
277(18)
Ensuring Safety and Efficacy of New Drugs: Too Much of a Good Thing?
295(18)
Why Are Prescription Drugs Less Expensive Overseas?
313(14)
How Should a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Be Designed?
327(18)
Should Kidneys and Other Organs Be Bought and Sold?
345(10)
The Role of Government in Medical Care
355(12)
Medical Research, Medical Education, Alcohol Consumption, and Pollution: Who Should Pay?
367(10)
The Canadian Health Care System
377(16)
Employer-mandated National Health Insurance
393(12)
National Health Insurance: Which Approach and Why?
405(12)
Financing Long-term Care
417(14)
The Politics of Health Care Reform
431(12)
Appendix: Discussion Questions 443(14)
Glossary 457(12)
Index 469(14)
About the Author 483

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