(eBook PDF) Health Policy Issues An Economic Perspective Seventh Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 1640550100
- ISBN-13 : 978-1640550100
- Author: Paul Feldstein
Instructor Resources: Test bank, PowerPoint slides, discussion points for the book’s end-of-chapter discussion questions and additional questions and discussion points, teaching tips, chapter overviews, and a transition guide to the new edition. Healthcare affects the lives of most Americans and absorbs a large portion of the United States’ resources. It also is continually debated, prompting ongoing legislative changes and market restructuring. One of the best ways to understand healthcare, in all its complexity, is from an economic perspective—that is, from the perspective of the financial self-interest of all involved parties.
Table contents:
Chapter 1. The Rise of Medical Expenditures
Chapter 2. How Much Should We Spend on Medical Care?
Chapter 3. Do More Medical Expenditures Produce Better Health?
Chapter 4. In Whose Interest Does the Physician Act?
Chapter 5. Rationing Medical Services
Chapter 6. How Much Health Insurance Should Everyone Have?
Chapter 7. Why Are Those Who Most Need Health Insurance Least Able to Buy It?
Chapter 8. Medicare
Chapter 9. Medicaid
Chapter 10. How Does Medicare Pay Physicians?
Chapter 11. The Impending Shortage of Physicians
Chapter 12. Why Is Getting into Medical School So Difficult?
Chapter 13. The Changing Practice of Medicine
Chapter 14. Physician Malpractice Reform
Chapter 15. Do Nonprofit Hospitals Behave Differently Than For-Profit Hospitals?
Chapter 16. Competition Among Hospitals: Does It Raise or Lower Costs?
Chapter 17. The Future Role of Hospitals
Chapter 18. Cost Shifting
Chapter 19. Can Price Controls Limit Medical Expenditure Increases?
Chapter 20. The Evolution of Managed Care
Chapter 21. Has Competition Been Tried—and Has It Failed — to Improve the US Healthcare System?
Chapter 22. Comparative Effectiveness Research
Chapter 23. Who Bears the Cost of Employee Health Benefits?
Chapter 24. Will a Shortage of Registered Nurses Reoccur?
Chapter 25. The High Price of Prescription Drugs
Chapter 26. Ensuring Safety and Efficacy of New Drugs: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Chapter 27. Why Are Prescription Drugs Less Expensive Overseas?
Chapter 28. The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Public Policy Dilemma
Chapter 29. Should Kidneys and Other Organs Be Bought and Sold?
Chapter 30. Should Profits in Healthcare Be Prohibited?
Chapter 31. The Role of Government in Medical Care
Chapter 32. Health Associations and the Political Marketplace
Chapter 33. Medical Research, Medical Education, Alcohol Consumption, and Pollution: Who Should Pay?
Chapter 34. The Canadian Healthcare System
Chapter 35. Employer-Mandated National Health Insurance
Chapter 36. National Health Insurance: Which Approach and Why?
Chapter 37. Financing Long-Term Care
Chapter 38. The Affordable Care Act: Did It Achieve Its Goals?
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