The basic dilemma : is health care a right or a market commodity? -- The accidental system -- The stakeholders and the policy process -- Beneath the dilemmas, the trilemma -- Medicare and Medicaid : the entitlement dilemmas -- Good health at lower cost : how do other nations do it? -- Managed care : boon or bane? both! -- Controlling costs : mission impossible? -- A sensible wild idea : universalize Medicare
Summary
An insightful policy study that shows that in the American political context, health care is neither exclusively a public right nor a private privilege
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index
Notes
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