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Healthcare, guaranteed : a simple, secure solution for America / Ezekiel J. Emanuel ; with a foreword by Victor R. Fuchs.

Title
Healthcare, guaranteed : a simple, secure solution for America / Ezekiel J. Emanuel ; with a foreword by Victor R. Fuchs.
Author
Emanuel, Ezekiel J., 1957-
Publication
New York : PublicAffairs, c2008.

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xv, 219 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
Presents a proposal for a health care program which would provide affordable universal health care, with mechanisms for oversight on costs and quality of care and a method of financing which would incorporate fairness and efficiency.
Subject
  • Universal Health Insurance
  • Health Care Reform
  • Delivery of Health Care > economics
  • Insurance, Health
  • Health care reform > United States
  • Health insurance > United States
  • Medical care > United States
  • National Health Insurance, United States
  • National Health Programs
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Beyond anecdotes -- The goals of reform -- History and havoc: the diagnosis of the problem -- The guaranteed healthcare access plan: a comprehensive cure -- Band-aids are not enough -- The mistake of mandates -- Single-payer plans: an outdated solution for modern medicine -- Opening the door to comprehensive change: will the system get better? When? How?
ISBN
  • 1586486624 (pbk.)
  • 9781586486624 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008007746
OCLC
195766823
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library