Health Care Politics, Policy, and Distributive Justice: The Ironic Triumph

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SUNY Press, 1 gen 1992 - 339 pagine
This book describes and evaluates power and influence in the creation, administration, and distribution of health care in the United States. His work is uniquely concerned with distributive justice as well as power. Who ought to receive more (or less) health care? How should we decide these distributions? Such questions are addressed in works of philosophy with little attention to political, legal, and economic analysis of budget dilemmas, professional and industrial politics, and technology. This volume takes the issue a step further by placing health policy issues in the broader context of American politics, illuminating the conflict between health resources and other needs, and evaluating the trade offs.
 

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Health Care Past and Present
7
The Irony of Equal Access to Health Care
17
Health Care Politics Policy and Economics
41
Tragic Choice Technology and Political DecisionMaking
61
Young and Old
81
Distributive Justice and Health Care Rationing
95
Health Care Politics in America
123
The Constitutional Framework
125
The Health Care Lobby
159
Congress and the Bureaucracy
189
Budget Politics Who Gets What When and How
221
Socialism Private Enterprise or State Regulation
249
Courts and Medical Liability Where Is Justice?
285
Medical Liability and the Insurance Crisis
303
Index
329
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Informazioni sull'autore (1992)

Robert P. Rhodes is Professor of Political Science at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He has also written The Insoluble Problems of Crime and Organized Crime: Crime Control Versus Civil Liberties.

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