Health Care Politics, Policy, and Distributive Justice

The Ironic Triumph

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

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This book describes and evaluates power and influence in the creation, administration, and distribution of health care in the United States. His work is uniquely concerned with distributive justice as well as power. Who ought to receive more (or less) health care? How should we decide these distributions? Such questions are addressed in works of philosophy with little attention to political, legal, and economic analysis of budget dilemmas, professional and industrial politics, and technology. This volume takes the issue a step further by placing health policy issues in the broader context of American politics, illuminating the conflict between health resources and other needs, and evaluating the trade offs.

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Utgivningsdatum1991-10-04
Mått159 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor339
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791407783

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Figures TablesAcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I Modern Miracles, Hard Choices1. Health Care Past and Present2. The Irony of Equal Access to Health Care3. Health Care Politics, Policy, and Economics4. Tragic Choice, Technology, and Political Decision-Making5. Young and Old6. Distributive Justice and Health Care RationingPart II Health Care Politics in America 7. The Constitutional Framework8. The Health Care Lobby9. Congress and the Bureaucracy10. Budget Politics: Who Gets What, When, and How11. Socialism, Private Enterprise, or State Regulation12. Courts and Medical Liability: Where Is Justice?13. Medical Liability and the Insurance "Crisis"Index

"Rhodes has done a very good job of showing how political decisions quite literally allocate life or death. His use of political science concepts to explain the perplexing nature of health policy problems provides insight that is frequently missing in the discussion of public policy problems." — Fred Meyer, Ball State University"This book offers a thoughtful discussion of the economic and political constraints and resources for providing health care. Its greatest contribution is in synthesizing diverse materials that are relevant to each other but seldom interrelated." — David H. Smith, Indiana University