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Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z, December 2003
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HEALTH CARE POLICY AND POLITICS A TO Z
By: Julie Rovner

Health care is America's most talked about and controversial issue at the end of the 20th century. No domestic problem has engaged so many persons, from thousands without medical insurance to individuals fed up with real or imagined mistreatment in manage

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December 2003
282 pages
ISBN: 1568028520
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Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z is the new ready-reference guide in the acclaimed A to Z series. Written by an expert Washington journalist, it brings clarity and understanding to one of the most contentious and important public policy issues in America.

National health care policy has been controversial from the days that it was excluded from Social Security coverage at the birth of that program, through President Truman's failed attempt to create a universal health care program, to President Clinton's disastrous bungled attempt to devise a new system as the centerpiece of his domestic agenda in 1993. The specifics of the debate have changed over more than half a century, but the basics have not.

What is managed care and why is it so controversial? What are the roots of the abortion controversy? What is a cafeteria benefits plan, capitation, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and portability? How do Medicare and Medicaid work, and what is the difference between them? These and hundreds of other questions, terms, and concepts - almost 300 in all - are discussed in layman's language by Julie Rovner, a Washington-based reporter specializing in health care issues for many years.

Readers will turn to this book to understand the continuing national debate about how Americans should receive health care and who should pay for it. No other ready-reference volume for consumers, students, and researchers gives such breadth of analysis to this issue.

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