Health Care for Some

Author: Beatrix Hoffman
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B009G6PSLK
Category: Medical

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

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. Download Health Care for Some medical books for free.
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 Get Health Care for Some our bestseller medical books.

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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 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

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