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

Hoffman, Beatrix

 
9780226102191: Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930
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ISBN 10: 022610219X ISBN 13: 9780226102191
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2013

Sinopsis

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. 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 system in the world.

While most histories of US health care emphasize failed policy reforms, Health Care for Some looks at the system from the ground up in order to examine how rationing is experienced by ordinary Americans and how experiences of rationing have led to claims for a right to health care. By taking this approach, Hoffman puts a much-needed human face on a topic that is too often dominated by talking heads.


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Beatrix Hoffman is professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
022610219X
ISBN 13 
9780226102191
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
355
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