Health Care

by Torr, James D.

• ISBN13: 9780737701296
• ISBN10: 0737701293
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Greenhaven Pr

Summary

While President Clinton's 1993 plan to reform America's health care system was rejected by Congress and the public, the problems of the health care system continue.

Table of Contents

Why Consider Opposing Viewpoints?	9	(12)
Introduction	12	(4)
Is America's Health Care System in Need of Reform?
Chapter Preface	16	(1)
America Has the Best Health Care System in the World	17	(7)
Joseph A. Califano Jr.
America Does Not Have the Best Health Care System in the World	24	(7)
Steve Kangas
Health Care Should Be Recognized as a Basic Human Right	31	(4)
There Is No Right to Health Care	35	(5)
Sheldon Richman
The Uninsured Are a Serious Problem	40	(7)
Robert Pear
Advances in Medicine Have Caused a Health Care Crisis	47	(7)
Willard Gaylin
The Problems of the Health Care System Are Exaggerated	54	(10)
Merrill Matthews Jr.
John C. Goodman
Periodical Bibliography	61	(2)
How Has Managed Care Affected the Health Care System?
Chapter Preface	63	(1)
Managed Care Is Necessary to Control Health Care Costs	64	(6)
Susan Brink
Managed Care Is Unethical	70	(8)
Ronald J. Glasser
Managed Care Has Harmed the Health Care System	78	(9)
Deborah A. Stone
Managed Care Has Not Harmed the Health Care System	87	(8)
David Jacobsen
The Free Market Will Improve the Managed Care System	95	(7)
Stephen Chapman
Michael W. Lynch
The Managed Care System Is Not a Free Market	102	(11)
M. Stanton Evans
Periodical Bibliography	110	(2)
What Government Initiatives Could Improve the Health Care System?
Chapter Preface	112	(1)
Patient Protection Laws Would Improve the Health Care System	113	(6)
Barbara Boxer
Patient Protection Laws Would Not Improve the Health Care System	119	(7)
Brian J. LeClair
Jonathan Chait
Patients Should Be Able to Sue Their Health Plans	126	(4)
Linda Peeno
Patients Should Not Be Able to Sue Their Health Plans	130	(6)
Karen Ignagni
The Government Should Encourage Healthy Behavior	136	(11)
James Moore
The Government Should Not Regulate Behavior	147	(10)
Jacob Sullum
Periodical Bibliography	154	(2)
How Should the United States Reform Its Health Care System?
Chapter Preface	156	(1)
Canada's System Is a Model for Health Care Reform	157	(5)
Pat Armstrong
Hugh Armstrong
Canada's System Is Not a Model for Health Care Reform	162	(6)
Michael J. Hurd
Medical Savings Accounts Will Improve the Health Care System	168	(5)
Peter J. Ferrara
Medical Savings Accounts Will Not Improve the Health Care System	173	(5)
Jonathan Cohn
Edward Kennedy
The United States Should Adopt National Health Insurance	178	(9)
David DeGrazia
The Federal Employee Health Benefits Program Is a Model for Health Care Reform	187	(9)
Eric B. Schnurer
The Government Should Encourage Individually Owned Health Insurance	196	(9)
Sue A. Blevins
Periodical Bibliography	204	(1)
Glossary	205	(2)
For Further Discussion	207	(3)
Organizations to Contact	210	(3)
Bibliography of Books	213	(3)
Index	216