Health at risk : America's ailing health system--and how to heal it /

Health at risk : America's ailing health system--and how to heal it /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2008] ©2008
Description:	1 online resource (139 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	A Columbia/SSRC book The Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk Columbia/SSRC book. Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk.
Subject:	Health care reform -- United States. Medical policy -- United States. Insurance, Health. Health Services Accessibility. Insurance Coverage. Health Care Reform. Health care reform. Medical policy. United States. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11103507

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Other authors / contributors:	Hacker, Jacob S., editor.
ISBN:	9780231518611 0231518617 9780231146029 0231146027 9780231146036 0231146035
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 Jacob Hacker is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley, where he heads the Center on Health and Economic Security at the Boalt Law School. A frequent media commentator and author of numerous scholarly and popular articles, he is the author of four books, most recently The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream. In English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care to declining levels of insurance coverage, medical bankruptcy, and the growing enthusiasm for health plans that put patients in charge of risk and cost. Bringing the latest research to bear on these issues, contributors diagnose the problems of our present system and offer treatments grounded in extensive experience. Free of bias and rhetoric, Health at Risk is an invaluable tool for those who are concerned with the current state of healthcare and are eager to effect change.--
Other form:	Print version: Health at risk. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 9780231146029
Standard no.:	10.7312/hack14602
Publisher's no.:	EB00662555 Recorded Books

Table of Contents:

The transformation of American health insurance / Jill Quadagno & J. Brendan McKelvey
Uninsured in America: new realties, new risks / Katherine Swartz
Get sick, go broke / Deborah Thorne & Elizabeth Warren
Just how good is American medical care? / Elizabeth A. McGlynn, David Meltzer, & Jacob S. Hacker
The new push for American health security / Jacob S. Hacker.