| Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World Contributor(s): Goodman, John C. (Author), Musgrave, Gerald L. (Author), Herrick, Devon M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742541517 ISBN-13: 9780742541511 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $133.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2004 Annotation: Lives at Risk identifies 20 myths about health care as delivered in countries that have national health insurance. These myths have gained the status of fact in both the United States and abroad, even though the evidence shows a far different reality. The authors also explore the political and economic climate of the health care system and offer alternatives to the current health care public policies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Medical | Health Policy |
| Dewey: 368.42 |
| LCCN: 2004006468 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.26 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Virtually everyone agrees that our health care system needs reform. But what kind of reform? Some want a return to the system that prevailed in the 1950s. Others would like to see the adaptation of the government-run systems prevalent in other countries. The latter, national health insurance or single-payer health insurance, appears to be gaining ground in the United States. Before Americans find themselves participating in a health care system that has failed in every country it was adopted, we should be asking ourselves whether such a system is effective and efficient. In Lives at Risk, the authors examine the critical failures of national health insurance systems without focusing on minor blemishes or easily correctable problems. In doing so, the purpose is to identify the problems common to all countries with national health insurance and to explain why these problems emerge. Most national health care systems are in a state of sustained internal crisis as costs rise and the stated goals of universal access and quality care are not met. In almost all cases, the reason is the same: the politics of medicine. The problems of government-run health care systems flow inexorably from the fact that they are government-run rather than market driven. |