Health Care for Some

Author: Beatrix Hoffman
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0226348032

Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care.
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She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care. Health Care for Some shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical services-using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factors-is a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing. And unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most expensive health care

Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States Since

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Health Care for Some by Beatrix Hoffman Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New The 2010 Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, as its detractors like to call it) is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Why has the United States been so continually divided on this issue? The author offers an explanation in the form of an engaging and in-depth look at America s long tradition of unequal access to health care. Pu

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She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care
And unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most expensive health care