Understanding Health Policy

by Bodenheimer, Thomas S.

• ISBN13: 9780071423113
• ISBN10: 0071423117
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical

Summary

"This highly readable text gives a broad but detailed picture of how health care is organized and dispensed in the United States." -Annals of Internal Medicine, on the First Edition The #1 text on health policy, this well-known book provides a short introduction to U.S. health care policy by two leading experts who are themselves practicing physicians. The Fourth Edition features the latest information on cost containment, health insurance, managed care, hospital payment, and the new two-tier model of physician reimbursement.

Author Biography

Thomas S. Bodenheimer, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco Kevin Grumbach, MD, University of California, San Francisco

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction: The Paradox of Excess & Deprivation	1	(3)
Paying for Health Care	4	(11)
Access to Health Care	15	(15)
Reimbursing Health Care Providers	30	(9)
Capitation Payment in Managed Care	39	(7)
How Health Care Is Organized---I	46	(13)
How Health Care Is Organized---II	59	(10)
Painful Versus Painless Cost Control	69	(11)
Mechanisms for Controlling Costs	80	(13)
Long-Term Care	93	(9)
The Prevention of Illness	102	(12)
The Quality of Health Care	114	(15)
Medical Ethics & the Rationing of Health Care	129	(14)
Health Care in Four Nations	143	(15)
National Health Insurance	158	(9)
Conflict & Change in America's Health Care System	167	(9)
The Health Care Workforce	176	(11)
Conclusion: Tensions & Challenges	187	(3)
Questions & Discussion Topics	190	(7)
Index	197