{"product_id":"the-health-care-safety-net-mark-a-hall-9780813553061","title":"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World\u003c\/i\u003e examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. The \"safety net\" refers to the collection of hospitals, clinics, and doctors who treat disadvantaged people, including those without insurance, regardless of their ability to pay. Despite comprehensive national health care reform, over twenty million people will remain uninsured. And many of those who obtain insurance from reform will continue to face shortages of providers in their communities willing or able to serve them. As the demand for care grows with expanded insurance, so will the pressure on an overstretched safety net. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book, with contributions from leading health care scholars, is the first comprehensive assessment of the safety net in over a decade. Rather than view health insurance and the health care safety net as alternatives to each other, it examines their potential to be complementary aspects of a broader effort to achieve equity and quality in health care access. It also considers whether the safety net can be improved and strengthened to a level that can provide truly universal access, both through expanded insurance and the creation of a well-integrated and reasonably supported network of direct health care access for the uninsured.\u003cp\u003eSeeing safety net institutions as key components of post-health care reform in the United States--as opposed to stop-gap measures or as part of the problem--is a bold idea. And as presented in this volume, it is an idea whose time has come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark a. Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813553067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813553061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2013","brand":"Mark a. Hall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120309203199,"sku":"9780813553061","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1eb8748-de1d-4c96-bacb-c0beb9d27f43.jpg?v=1687413627","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-health-care-safety-net-mark-a-hall-9780813553061","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}