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Health care as a right of citizenship : the continuing evolution of reform / Gunnar Almgren.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Almgren, Gunnar Robert, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- United States.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Health insurance--Government policy--United States.
- Health insurance.
- Health insurance--Government policy.
- Right to health--United States.
- Right to health.
- Health Care Reform.
- Civil Rights.
- Social Justice.
- Social Security.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Care Reform.
- Civil Rights.
- Social Justice.
- Social Security.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 342 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- While the Obama administrations Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health-care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen short in offering universal health care to all. In Health Care as a Right of Citizenship. Gunnar Almgren argues that the ACA's primary significance is not in its expansion of health-care entitlements but in its affirming by an act of Congress the idea that comprehensive health care must be available to all as a right of citizenship. The mainstream American public now views access to affordable health care to all citizens as a crucial function of just and effective governance-and any proposed alternative to the ACA must be reconciled with that expectation. This ambitious book examines how the American health-care system must be further reformed to bring it closer in line with the ideals of a modern democracy and the substantive requirements of democratic citizenship, as well as how the ACA may change in the coming years. It also suggests the next, natural step in the realization of comprehensive health care as a social right of citizenship, as such a right is advanced by the theories and arguments of John Rawls and T. H. Marshall. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Statement of the problem : American exceptionalism in health care and the emergence of the great unsustainable compromise
- The emergence of the new era of reform
- The theoretical foundations for health care as a social right of citizenship
- A principled critique of the ACA and the ACA in an evolutionary perspective
- A principled approach to radical health care reform
- A principled approach to essential health care delivery system reforms
- Assessing health care system performance against the four care aims of health care policy
- Special issues and considerations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Biomedical Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780231543316
- 023154331X
- Publisher Number:
- 99970831177
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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