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Title

Toward a healthy society : the morality and politics of American health care reform / Milton Fisk.

Author

Fisk, Milton.

Publication

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2000.

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Description

viii, 294 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Health care today is part of big business, which in defeating the Clinton plan successfully pushed any kind of basic reform off the political agenda. Continuing citizen support for some form of public insurance is, says Milton Fisk, a sign that basic reform is still possible. In his new book, he argues persuasively that basic reform goes beyond a matter of life and death - it's integral to maintaining a society where concern for others holds its own against the market.".
• "Taking in the broad sweep of social policy in the last half-century, Fisk describes the shift from welfare toward competitiveness as a key factor in the rise of corporate care in the United States. He analyzes the failure of the Clinton health care plan in detail and shows that its commitment to corporate health care was at odds with its reforming intent. He then argues that without national health insurance, needless obstacles will stand in the way of a healthy society.
• Ideally, the public fund behind this insurance would be derived from a progressive income tax."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Health Care Reform
• Health care reform > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Contents

Introduction: Political Morality and Public Goods -- Pt. I. Locating Obstacles to Health Care Reform. 1. The Decline of Compassion and Solidarity. 2. The Struggle to Define Patients' Needs. 3. How Corporate Medicine Limits Reform -- Pt. II. Redirecting Health Care Ethics. 4. Collective Provision, Markets, and the Public Good. 5. Just Health Care and the Common Good. 6. Democracy Versus Corporatist Decision Making -- Pt. III. Making the Transition to Reform. 7. Finance and the Origins of Corporate Health Care. 8. Toward a Radical Politics of Reform. 9. The Struggle for a Healthy Society: Business and Medicine Against the Public Good. 10. Market Failures and Social Values in Health Care.

ISBN

0700610146 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

99057481

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries