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Power and Illness - The Failure and Future of American Health Policy (Paperback, Revised)
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Power and Illness - The Failure and Future of American Health Policy (Paperback, Revised)
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During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized
caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing
chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most
sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and
wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and
offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national
health care priorities. Fox discusses how ideas about illness and
health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have
shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who
make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals,
physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would
become healthier. This position, implemented at considerable cost,
has not adequately taken into account the growing burden of chronic
disabling illness. While decision makers may have defined chronic
disease as a high priority in research, they have not given it such
a priority in the financing of health services. The increasing
burden of chronic illness is critical. Fox suggests ways to solve
this problem without increasing the already high cost of health
care - but he does not underestimate the difficulties in such a
strategy. Advocating the redistribution of resources within
hospital and medical services, he targets those that are redundant
or marginally effective. There could be no more timely subject
today than American health care. And Daniel Fox is uniquely able to
address its problems. A historian of medicine, with knowledge of
how hospitals and physicians behave and how health policy is made
at government levels, he has extensively researched published and
unpublished documents on health care. What he proposes could
profoundly affect all Americans.
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