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TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005Edition: 2nd edDescription: 3 v. ; 24 cmISBN: 0822335689 (v. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper); 082233593X (v. 2 : pbk. : alk. paper); 0822335697 (v. 3 : pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Social medicine | Social Medicine | Ethics, Clinical | Health Policy | Professional-Patient Relations | Sick Role | Socioeconomic Factors | Terminal CareDDC classification: 610

Contents:

Preface to the Second Edition vii Introduction 1 Part I The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowherel, /onathan Oberlander s Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care, Uwe E. Reinhardt 25 From Bismarck to Medicare-A Brief History of Medical Care Payment in America, Donald L. M adison 3 I The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart, Drew E. Altman and Larry Levit t 67 The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation, Henry /. Aaron 70 The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost Containment as Told in One Chart, Thomas Bodenheimer 73 Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs, Lawrence D. Brown and Michael S. Sparer 76 Part II Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing Bedside Manna, Deborah Stone 95 Must Good HMOS Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care, Robert Kuttner 107 Defending My Life, Geov Parrish r 19 Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care, Wendy K. Mariner 128 The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation, George f. Annt1s r 50 Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Graf ting in Canada, fafna L. Cox 158 Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization, Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein 167 Part Ill International Perspectives and Emerging Issues Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma, Uwe E. Reinhardt 179 Health Care in Four Nations, Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach 199 Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda, Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook 2 30 What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States?, Victor R. Fuchs 240 Luxury Primary Care-Market Innovation or Threat to Access , Troyen A. Brennan 246 Correspondence: Response to "Luxury Primary Care" 25 5 Limiting Health Care for the Old, Daniel Callahan 260 Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equity and Age-Based Rationing, Robert H. Binstock 267

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v. 1. Patients, doctors, and illness / edited by Nancy M.P. King ... [et al.] -- v. 2. Social and cultural contributions to health, difference, and inequality / edited by Gail E. Henderson ... [et al.]. -- v. 3. Health policy, markets, and medicine / edited by Jonathan Oberlander ... [et al.].

Preface to the Second Edition vii Introduction 1

Part I The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs

The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowherel,
/onathan Oberlander s
Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care, Uwe E. Reinhardt 25
From Bismarck to Medicare-A Brief History of Medical Care Payment in America, Donald L. M adison 3 I
The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart, Drew E. Altman and Larry Levit t 67
The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation, Henry /. Aaron 70
The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost Containment as Told in One Chart, Thomas Bodenheimer 73
Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs, Lawrence D. Brown and Michael S. Sparer 76

Part II Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing

Bedside Manna, Deborah Stone 95

Must Good HMOS Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care, Robert Kuttner 107
Defending My Life, Geov Parrish r 19
Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care, Wendy K. Mariner 128
The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation, George f. Annt1s r 50
Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Graf ting in Canada, fafna L. Cox 158
Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization,
Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein 167
Part Ill International Perspectives and Emerging Issues
Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma, Uwe E. Reinhardt 179
Health Care in Four Nations, Thomas Bodenheimer
and Kevin Grumbach 199
Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda,
Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook 2 30
What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States?,
Victor R. Fuchs 240

Luxury Primary Care-Market Innovation or Threat to Access , Troyen A. Brennan 246
Correspondence: Response to "Luxury Primary Care" 25 5 Limiting Health Care for the Old, Daniel Callahan 260
Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equity and Age-Based Rationing, Robert H. Binstock 267

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