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The Affordable Care Act : a missed opportunity, a better way forward / Guy B. Faguet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faguet, Guy B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National health insurance--United States.
- National health insurance.
- Medical care, Cost of--United States.
- Medical care, Cost of.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Health insurance--United States.
- Health insurance.
- United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Responsibility for the current inequitable and costly health system is widely shared among all players. This book by a Professor of Medicine with 30 years of teaching and clinical experience analyzes the situation and proposes a solution that, just like the problem, will rely on all parties in a bid to endow America with an equitable and affordable universal health system.
- Contents:
- Historical overview
- Root causes of the spiraling healthcare costs
- Cost control initiatives
- The politics and the money behind the bill
- Outline of the Affordable Care Act
- The U.S. healthcare system : a brief outline
- Foreign and domestic health models we can learn from
- An equitable and affordable universal health system.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-87586-977-7
- OCLC:
- 849927145
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