Falling Through the Safety Net: Insurance Status and Access to Health Care - Brossura

Weissman, Joel S.; Epstein, Arnold M.

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ISBN 10: 0801849179 ISBN 13: 9780801849176

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, there is increasing interest in how insurance coverage affects the medical care people receive. In "Falling Through the Safety Net", Joel Weissman and Arnold Epstein, the latter a member of Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care task force, evaluate what is currently known about how insurance status affects one's health and use of health services. The authors begin by setting forth a conceptual framework for the study of access to health care. They describe existing patterns of insurance coverage in the United States and examine the variations in utilization of health services and patient outcomes according to type (or lack) of insurance. Among the topics discussed are frequency of physician visits, admission to hospitals and length of hospital stay, "patient dumping", preventive care, prescription drug use, avoidable hospitalizations, Medicaid and nursing homes. The source of medical payment, the authors argue, has a substantial effect of the amount, location and quality of care received in the US health system. In a final section, the authors describe the history of attempts to develop national health insurance and provide a taxonomy of different sorts of insurance reform. They conclude by discussing criteria that can be used to determine the success of any reform package. This book should be of interest to professionals in health policy and management in both research and policy-making capacities.

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This book should provoke researchers and policy makers to think in a broad context about ways we can make health care more accessible and seek ways we can eliminate the problem of people being uninsured.Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the Foreword

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Book by Weissman PhD Dr Joel S Epstein MD MA Dr Arnold M

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801849179
• ISBN 13: 9780801849176
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile