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Tables and Figures | p. ix |
Foreword | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Health Care: an International Perspective | p. 1 |
Health Care Paradigms | p. 2 |
Health Services Continuum | p. 3 |
Convergence among Health Systems | p. 4 |
Limits to Convergence | p. 7 |
Parameters of the Study | p. 7 |
Managing the U.S. Health Care System | p. 9 |
A System in Constant Flux | p. 9 |
Health Insurance Coverage in the United States | p. 13 |
Back to the Future | p. 17 |
Health Care Reform Takes Center Stage | p. 20 |
Managed Care's Transformation of the U.S. Health Care System | p. 22 |
From There to Here | p. 23 |
Managed Care's Impact on Provider Payment | p. 27 |
Managed Care as Effective Agent of Cost Control | p. 29 |
Costs: What Goes Down Must Come Up | p. 30 |
Managed Care under Fire | p. 33 |
The Future: Incremental Approach as the Only Game in Town | p. 35 |
It Ain't Over Yet | p. 38 |
German Health Care: Bismarck's Grand (and Enduring) Design | p. 40 |
Overview of the German Health Care System | p. 41 |
Health Care Expenditures, Then and Now | p. 42 |
Present at the Creation: Tracing the Roots of National Health Insurance | p. 45 |
The Current System: Health Care Benefits, Organization, and Financing | p. 49 |
Outside the Sickness Fund System: The Privately Insured | p. 54 |
Long-Term Care Insurance Program | p. 55 |
Health Care Delivery | p. 56 |
Twenty Years of Health Care Cost Control: 1977-Present | p. 60 |
Health Care Reform as a Permanent State? | p. 65 |
Convergence | p. 71 |
Health Care in the Netherlands: Managed Competition Goes Dutch | p. 73 |
Overview of the Dutch Health Care System | p. 74 |
Dutch Health Care: History and Current Organization | p. 75 |
Health Care Financing | p. 80 |
Health Care Delivery | p. 80 |
Health Care Reform in the Netherlands | p. 83 |
Outlook for the Future | p. 87 |
Changing Roles in the Dutch Health Care Sector | p. 88 |
Convergence | p. 89 |
Made in Japan: Universal Health Insurance | p. 91 |
The Japanese Advantage | p. 91 |
Confluence of East and West | p. 95 |
Legislating Health Insurance Coverage | p. 98 |
Organized Complexity | p. 99 |
Health Care Delivery | p. 107 |
Controlling Health Care Costs: Nationwide Fee Schedule | p. 110 |
The Sun Also Sets on Japanese Health Care | p. 112 |
Convergence | p. 119 |
Northern Exposure: Canada's National Health Insurance System | p. 121 |
Overview of Canadian Health Care | p. 123 |
Canadian National Health Insurance: A Long Time Coming | p. 124 |
Medicare Is Born | p. 127 |
Political and Cultural Underpinnings of Canadian Health Care | p. 128 |
Health Care Delivery in Canada | p. 130 |
Canadian Health Care Financing | p. 133 |
Health Care Cost-Control, Canadian-Style | p. 140 |
The Future of Canadian Health Care | p. 146 |
Convergence | p. 147 |
Reforming the British National Health Service | p. 151 |
Overview of British Health Care | p. 153 |
Britain's Sacred Cow: The National Health Service | p. 154 |
NHS Financing | p. 156 |
Health Care Delivery | p. 160 |
The Role of the Private Sector | p. 163 |
NHS Reforms: Working for Patients | p. 164 |
Toward the NHS's Next Half Century | p. 170 |
Convergence | p. 173 |
International Experience and U.S. Health Care | p. 175 |
The United States Is Unique | p. 177 |
Limited Convergence among Systems | p. 179 |
Aging Populations | p. 180 |
The Future of U.S. Health Care | p. 182 |
Six Systems at a Glance | p. 185 |
References | p. 191 |
Index | p. 217 |
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