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A concise, authoritative tour of how U.S. health care is organized, financed, and regulated—connecting history and policy to today’s delivery, quality, access, and reform landscape.
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What’s New in the 10th Edition
- Expanded coverage of telehealth, consumer devices, apps, and remote patient monitoring
- Updated treatment of social and political determinants of health
- Financing issues, including value-based care and alternative payment models, and the impact of private equity funding, consolidation, and consumerism
- Updated sections across the care continuum: self-care, adult day services, hospice, and long-term care
- Analysis of the COVID-19 era and system resiliency
- Updated content on the diverse health care workforce and functions
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Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
PART I. U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: PRESENT STATE
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Settings for Health Care Delivery
Chapter 3. The People who Provide Health Care
Chapter 4. Medicines, Devices, and Technology
Chapter 5. Government and the Health Care System
Chapter 6. Financing the Health Care System
Chapter 7. Health Care System Performance
PART II. THE CHANGING U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: HOW WE GOT HERE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING
Chapter 8. Debates That Have Structured Health Care System Change
Chapter 9. History of Change From 1900 to 2010: Incrementalism
Chapter 10. History of Change From 1900 to 2010: Comprehensive Reform
Chapter 11. The Affordable Care Act and Health Care Reform After its Passage
Chapter 12. Prospects for the U.S. Health Care System
Index
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- Release Date: April 17, 2024
- Paperback / softback
- 443 Pages
- Trim Size: 7in x 10in
- Number of Illustrations: 43
- ISBN: 9780826180728
- eBook ISBN: 9780826180735
