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Disentitlement? : the threats facing our public health-care programs and a rights-based response / Timothy Stoltzfus Jost.
Van Pelt Library RA412.2 .J675 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jost, Timothy S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicare--Law and legislation.
- Medicare.
- Medicaid--Law and legislation.
- Medicaid.
- Entitlement spending.
- Health insurance--Law and legislation.
- Health insurance.
- Health care reform.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- 2. Why Entitlements Matter 8
- 3. The Nature of American Health-Care Entitlements 23
- 4. The Historical Foundations of American Health-Care Entitlements 63
- 5. Experiments with Privatization: Medicare and Medicaid Managed Care 110
- 6. Medicare "Reform": Disentitlement through Privatization 138
- 7. Health Insurance for the Poor: Disentitlement through Devolution 162
- 8. Tax Credits for Health Insurance: Disentitlement of America's Workers? 184
- 9. The British National Health Service: The General Revenue-Financed Model of Health-Care Entitlements 204
- 10. The German Health-Care System: The Social Insurance Model of Health-Care Entitlements 235
- 11. Toward an Entitlement-Based Health-Care System 265.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195151437
- OCLC:
- 50670568
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