The Future of Health Policy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674338265)

Americans are understandably concerned about the runaway costs of medical care and the fact that one citizen out of seven is without health insurance coverage. Solving these problems is a top priority for the Clinton administration, but as Victor Fuchs shows, the task is enormously complex. In this book Fuchs, America's foremost health economist, provides the reader with the necessary concepts, facts, and analyses to comprehend the complicated issues of health policy. He shows why health care reform that benefits society as a whole will unavoidably burden certain individuals and groups.

Fuchs addresses such central questions as cost containment, managed competition, technology assessment, poverty and health, children's health, and national health insurance. The future of U.S. health policy, he argues, is tightly linked to three basic questions; First, how can we disengage health insurance from employment? Second, how can we tame technological change in health care? And finally how can we cope with the runaway medical costs of an aging society?

Author: Victor R. Fuchs
ISBN-10: 067433826X
ISBN-13: 9780674338265
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/19/1998
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.01w x 0.78d