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Unaffordable, American healthcare from Johnson to Trump, Jonathan Engel

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Unaffordable, American healthcare from Johnson to Trump, Jonathan Engel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unaffordable

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

982465320

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Engel

Sub title

American healthcare from Johnson to Trump

Summary

"Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk, engaging history of American healthcare from the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s. Step by step, Jonathan Engel shows how we arrived at our present convoluted situation, where generic drug prices can jump 1,000 percent in a day and primary care physicians can lose a fifth of their income at the stroke of a Congressional pen. Unaffordable covers topics ranging from health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing, and physician training to health maintenance organizations and hospital networks. Engel offers comparisons with other nations and provides insights on ethical quandaries arround end-of-life decisions, neonatal care, life-sustaining treatments, and the limits of our ability to define death. While describing the political origins of many of the federal and state laws that govern our healthcare system today, he never loses sight of the impact that healthcare delivery has on our wallets and on the balance sheets of hospitals, doctors' offices, governmental agencies, and private companies."--Back cover

Table Of Contents

Timeline of major federal legislation -- A system run amok -- Medical free markets -- Reigning in the excess -- The lure of profits -- Efforts to rationalize -- HillaryCare -- Managing care -- Quantity and quality -- Ethical wrangling -- Medicare and Medicaid: evolving government programs -- (Un)Affordable Care -- Afterword

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American healthcare from Johnson to Trump

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