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Although American medicine has had truly impressive clinical
achievements, America's health care system fails to provide equal
access to reasonable care or to use its resources effectively at a
high human cost. Yet health care reform faces major obstacles. One
is a lack of easy-to-find reliable information about key dynamic
forces that influence outcomes and performance of various types of
health care systems. This book fills that need and provides a guide
to the extensive academic and practice journal literature and to
the health reports from the U.S. Accounting Office and the Agency
for Health Care Policy and Research. This book is for those who
want to go beyond glib soundbites and understand the complexities
that make health care reform a difficult issue. The volume is
arranged in five chapters: current challenges to the health care
system; health insurance; health care providers; chronic illness
and AIDS: future challenges for the American health care system;
and health policy and thoughts on reform. The first and last
chapters contain articles that provide broad overviews of the
health care system and reform of American health care. Chapters 2-4
acquaint the reader with the literature dealing with the nuts and
bolts of how the system works. This book provides a guide to the
sources of background information necessary to understand the need
for reform, to sources on the complexities and issues that must be
dealt with for effective reform, and to discussions of reform
itself. This is also a guide to major databases and prominent
authorities.
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