Debates on U.S. health care / editors, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Wendy E. Parmet, Mark A. Zezza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kronenfeld, Jennie J., editor.

Parmet, Wendy E., editor.

Zezza, Mark A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--United States.

Medical policy.

Medical economics--United States.

Medical economics.

Public health--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Public health.

Health Policy.

Economics, Medical.

Public Health--ethics.

United States.

Public health--Moral and ethical aspects.

Medical Subjects:

Health Policy.

Economics, Medical.

Public Health--ethics.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 569 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [2012]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

This issues-based reference work shines a spotlight on health care policy and practice in the United States. Impassioned debates about the best solutions to health care in America have perennially erupted among politicians, scholars of public policy, medical professionals, and the general public. The fight over the Health Care Reform Act of 2010 brought to light a multitude of fears, challenges, obstacles, and passions that often had the effect of complicating rather than clarifying the debate. The discourse has never been more heated. The complex issues that animate the health care debate have forced the American public to grapple with the exigencies of the present system with regard to economic, fiscal, and monetary policy, especially as they relate to philosophical, often ideologically driven approaches to the problem. Americans have also had to examine their ideas about the relationship of the individual to and interaction with the state and the varied social and cultural beliefs about what an American solution to the problem of health care looks like. In light of the need to keep students, researchers, and other interested readers informed and up-to-date on the issues surrounding health care in the U.S., this volume uses introductory essays followed by point/counterpoint articles to explore prominent and perennially important debates, providing readers with views on multiple sides of this complex issue.--Publisher website.

Contents:

Philosophical, political, and legal debates

Foundational debates

Moral significance of health care / Patricia Illingworth, Ronald Sandler

Health care and human health / Anthony L. Schlaff

Health care as a human right / Benjamin Mason Meier, Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya

Individual and societal responsibility for health / David Jones, Jodyn Platt, Daniel B. Rubin, Peter D. Jacobson

The role of the market in health care / Seth Freedman, Jill R. Horwitz

Racial disparities in health status and accessing health care / Ruqaiijah A. Yearby

Single-payer health care system / Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein, Simeon Kimmel, Carl Berdahl

Health care reform debates

Public opinion and health care reform / Thomas R. Marshall

States' rights and health care reform / Elizabeth Weeks Leonard

Liberty and the individual mandate / Leonard M. Fleck

Federal authority over the individual mandate / Julia Bienstock, Corey S. Davis

Underserved communities and health care reform / Sara Rosenbaum, Tishra Beeson

Abortion and reproductive health services / B. Jessie Hill

Reforming medical malpractice liability / Barry R. Furrow

Economic and fiscal debates

Expanding coverage

Individual mandate / Neera Tanden, Topher Spiro, Thomas Miller

Insurance regulation / Jason M. Hockenberry

Insurance exchanges / Alan C. Monheit, Joel C. Cantor

Employer mandate / Kathleen Carey

Paying for reform and bending the cost curve

Deficit reduction / Kavita Patel, Shayla Nagy, Mark A. Zezza

Tax treatment of employer-sponsored health insurance / Patricia Ketsche, William S. Custer, E. Kathleen Adams

Taxing high-cost (Cadillac) plans / Randy Haught, Elise Gould

Price transparency / Bianca K. Frogner

Accountable care organizations / David H. Howard, Cynthia Zeldin

Independent payment advisory board / Jennifer M. Kerner

Medicare negotiations of drug pricing / David W. Carlson

Medicaid program flexibility / R. Paul Duncan, Lilliana L. Bell, Allyson G. Hall, Shenae K. Samuels

Quality debates

Providers and quality

Primary care versus specialization / Crystal Wiley Cené, Dinushika Mohottige, Diane Dewar

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants / Barbara Sheer

Female physicians / Linda Grant, Aubrey Denmon

Ethnic background of physicians and patients / Marsha Regenstein, Ellie Andres, Dylan Nelson

Home care / Brenda Ohta

Treatment methods and quality

Centralized versus decentralized control / Kevin Seitz, Marianne Udow-Phillips

Comparative-effectiveness research / Michael Hochman, Danny McCormick, Elaine Morrato

Information technology adoption / Katy Mahraj, Kai Zheng

Cost and quality

Medicare benefit cuts / R. Tamara Konetzka, Marcelo Coca-Perraillon, Sally C. Stearns

High-deductible health insurance plans / Stephen T. Parente, David Randall.

Notes:

"A Sage reference publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from resource electronic title page (EbscoHost, viewed July 29, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version: Debates on U.S. health care.

ISBN:

9781452266640

1452266646

9781452218472

1452218471

9781782683667

1782683666

9781483306063

1483306062

OCLC:

811565682

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.