Our Unsystematic Health Care System

by Budrys, Grace

• ISBN13: 9780742508996
• ISBN10: 0742508994
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

The book provides a basic introduction to U.S. health care delivery arrangements. It identifies the organizations involved, outlines policies and procedures that govern how people get access to care, discusses how we pay for health care services, and compares our arrangements to those in other countries.

Author Biography

Grace Budrys is professor of sociology at DePaul University in Chicago

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Introduction to the Health Care System as a Social Institution	p. 1
Two Sociological Perspectives of the Health Care System	p. 11
What Do We Think of the U.S. Health Care System?	p. 23
Hospitals and Other Health Care Organizations	p. 37
The Division of Labor in the Health Care Delivery System	p. 55
Alternative Medicine	p. 77
Health Insurance	p. 89
From HMOs to Managed Care	p. 111
Health Care Costs and Cost Containment	p. 123
Health Care System Reform	p. 133
The Health Care Systems in Other Countries	p. 147
The End of the Story and Its Implications	p. 165
Index	p. 177
About the Author	p. 182
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