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Healthcare reform in America : a reference handbook / Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and Michael R. Kronenfeld.
Van Pelt Library RA395.A3 K7593 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kronenfeld, Jennie J.
- Series:
- Contemporary world issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health care reform--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Health care reform.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2004]
- Contents:
- 1 Healthcare Reform: Cost, Quality, Access, and the Government's Role 1
- Health Policy Formulation and the Role of Government in Healthcare Reform 5
- Three Watchwords of the Healthcare System: Cost, Quality, and Access 8
- Patterns of Health Insurance and Access to Care 8
- Healthcare Costs and Expenditures 14
- Quality of Healthcare 19
- 2 The Role of the Federal Government in Health and Earlier Healthcare Reform Efforts 27
- Federal Involvement in Health (through the 1920s) 27
- The Federal Role during the Depression, World War II, and the 1950s 31
- Kennedy-Johnson Years and Expansion of Federal Involvement in Health 35
- Controversy, Contraction, and Unsettled Times in the Federal Role (1969-1979) 41
- The Limited and Reactive Change of the Reagan-Bush Period (1980-1992) 45
- The Clinton Administration, Failure in Major Healthcare Reform, and the Current Situation 53
- 4 People and Events 91
- George W. Bush 91
- Hillary Rodham Clinton 91
- William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton 92
- Wilbur J. Cohen 92
- Ronald Dellums 93
- Marian Wright Edelman 93
- Alain C. Enthoven 94
- William H. Frist 94
- Newt Gingrich 95
- Lister Hill 95
- Lyndon Baines Johnson 96
- Edward M. Kennedy 97
- C. Everett Koop 98
- Philip R. Lee 98
- Ira Magaziner 99
- Richard Nixon 99
- Ron Pollack 100
- Ronald Reagan 100
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 101
- Theodore Roosevelt 102
- Tommy G. Thompson 102
- Harris Wofford 103
- 5 Facts and Documents 105
- Federal Agencies and Health-Related Data Collections 106
- Historical Health Data and Government Publications 109
- Use of Various Federal and Other Data 110
- Nonprofit Think Tanks' and Policy Coalitions' Data and Documents 128
- 6 Organizations 221
- Professional Societies and Nonprofit Issue and Advocacy Associations 221
- Government Agencies 229
- 7 Selected Print and Nonprint Resources 233
- Books and Government Reports 233
- Electronic Library-Based Resources 239
- Health Research and Healthcare Policy Organization Web Sites 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1576079775
- 1576079783
- OCLC:
- 54803550
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