Health Policy in the United States

B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh, US.

• 1. Introduction: Images of American Healthcare2. American Healthcare in Comparative Perspective3. Medicare: Public Health Insurance for the Elderly 4. Medicaid and CHIP: Medical Care for the Medically Indigent5. Affordable Care Act: A Major Step Forward6. Regulatory Policies in Healthcare7. Access to Healthcare8. Healthcare Costs and Cost Containment9. The Quality of Healthcare: How Good Is It?10. What’s Next? Continuing Health Reform after the Affordable Care Act

“A remarkable introduction to America’s medical arrangements, the nation’s economic outlays, the public’s opinions of those arrangements and the political struggles that are major components of American public life.” Ted Marmor, Yale University