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

Hoffman, Beatrix

ISBN 10: 0226348032 / ISBN 13: 9780226348032

Edité par The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA, 2012

A propos de cet article

320pp. Grey cloth-covered boards, blue titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Red endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear. 8vo. Reveals how the haphazard way the U.S. system allocates medical services - using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factors - has created a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Health Care for Some : Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930
• Éditeur: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226348032
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226348032
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Health, Fitness and Well-being

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Beatrix Hoffman is professor of history at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930 and The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America.