Research Catalog

Title

Lives at risk : single-payer national health insurance around the world / John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick.

Author

Goodman, John C.

Publication

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Musgrave, Gerald L.
• Herrick, Devon M., 1963-
• National Center for Policy Analysis (U.S.)

Description

ix, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Virtually everyone agrees that our health care system needs reform. But what kind of reform? Some want a return to the system that prevailed in the 1950s. Others would like to see the adaptation of the government-run systems prevalent in other countries. The latter, national health insurance or single-payer health insurance, appears to be gaining ground in the United States. Before Americans find themselves participating in a health care system that has failed in every country it was adopted, we should be asking ourselves whether such a system is effective and efficient. In Lives at Risk, the authors examine the critical failures of national health insurance systems without focusing on minor blemishes or easily correctable problems. In doing so, the purpose is to identify the problems common to all countries with national health insurance and to explain why these problems emerge. Most national health care systems are in a state of sustained internal crisis as costs rise and the stated goals of universal access and quality care are not met. In almost all cases, the reason is the same: the politics of medicine. The problems of government-run health care systems flow inexorably from the fact that they are government-run rather than market driven."--Back cover.

Subject

• National health insurance > Cross-cultural studies
• National health services > Cross-cultural studies
• Single-payer health care > Cross-cultural studies
• Medical policy > Cross-cultural studies
• Health care reform > United States
• Medical policy > United States
• Health insurance
• National health insurance
• Health care reform
• Single-Payer System
• National Health Programs
• Program Evaluation
• Health Care Reform
• Insurance, Health
• Health insurance
• Health care reform
• Medical policy
• National health insurance
• National health services
• Single-payer health care
• Gesundheitswesen
• Finanzierung
• Öffentlicher Haushalt
• United States
• USA
• Kanada
• Großbritannien
• Neuseeland

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Note

• "Published in cooperation with the National Center for Policy Analysis."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Rights -- Equality -- Needs -- Outcomes -- Technology -- Quality -- Costs -- Efficiency -- Unnecessary care -- Administrative costs -- Priorities -- Prevention -- Managed care -- International competitiveness -- The elderly -- Minorities -- Rural areas -- Prescription drugs -- Public opinion -- Reform -- The politics of medicine -- Is managed competition the answer? -- Designing an ideal health care system -- Designing ideal health insurance.

ISBN

• 0742541517
• 9780742541511
• 0742541525
• 9780742541528

LCCN

• 2004006468
• 9780742541528

OCLC

• ocm54817209
• 54817209
• SCSB-1351316

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library