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McDonough, John E. (John Edward)
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362.10425 22
Publication Date
2011
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This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary--and extraordinarily ambitious--legislative effort to reform the nation's health care system. Dr. John E. McDonough, DPH, a health policy expert who served as an advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, provides a vivid picture of the intense effort required to bring this legislation into law. McDonough clearly explains the ACA's inner workings, revealing the rich landscape of the issues, policies, and con.
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Hackey, Robert B.
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2012
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Garber, Steven, 1950-
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362.10973
Publication Date
2014
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New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical technologies are created, with two related policy goals: (1) Reduce total health care spending with the smallest possible loss of health benefits, and (2) ensure that new medical products that increase spending are accompanied by health benefits that are worth the spending increases.
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Faguet, Guy B., author.
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362.10681 23
Publication Date
2013
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Responsibility for the current inequitable and costly health system is widely shared among all players. This book by a Professor of Medicine with 30 years of teaching and clinical experience analyzes the situation and proposes a solution that, just like the problem, will rely on all parties in a bid to endow America with an equitable and affordable universal health system.
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Eibner, Christine.
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331.25540973 22
Publication Date
2008
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More than 60 percent of nonelderly Americans receive health-insurance (HI) coverage through employers, either as policyholders or as dependents. However, rising health-care costs are leading many to question the long-term viability of the employer-based insurance system. Concerns about the economic burden of providing HI are particularly acute for small businesses, which are both less likely than larger firms to offer HI and more sensitive to price when deciding to offer insurance. Small firms may have difficulty containing costs due to their limited bargaining power and their inability to hir.
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Robertson, Christopher T., 1975- author.
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368.38200973 23
Publication Date
2019
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"In Exposed, Christopher Robertson looks at a widely-shared point of agreement in the political battle over how to reshape U.S. healthcare: Nearly all sides believe that health insurance coverage should be incomplete. Driven by a particular economic theory of valuation, the law now reflects this consensus that patients should bear a substantial part of the costs of their own healthcare. In theory, this strategy empowers patients to make cost-benefit tradeoffs as they decide which healthcare to consume, and it could thereby be a force for efficiency in a healthcare system that is rife with waste. But, in fact, this approach to financing healthcare can erode the very purposes of insurance, as it keeps people from valuable care and drives patients into bankruptcy. Contrary to the traditional economic theory of "moral hazard," Robertson identifies the real problems driving wasteful healthcare spending as a lack of good scientific evidence about what healthcare works. Exposed develops an alternative economic framework to understand the real purpose of insurance, pooling resources to provide access to care that would otherwise be unaffordable to individuals"--
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Russell, Mark C. (Mark Charles), 1960- author.
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362.208835500973 23
Publication Date
2021
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"The psychological toll of war is vast, and the social costs of war's psychiatric casualties extend even further. Yet military mental health care suffers from extensive waiting lists, organizational scandals, spikes in veteran suicide, narcotic overprescription, shortages of mental health professionals, and inadequate treatment. The prevalence of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder is often underestimated, and there remains entrenched stigma and fear of being diagnosed. Even more alarming is how the military dismisses or conceals the significance and extent of the mental health crisis. The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. They examine the persistent disconnect between war culture, which valorizes an appearance of strength and seeks to purge weakness, and the science and treatment of trauma. Instead of reckoning with the mental health crisis, the military has neglected the needs of service members. It has discharged, prosecuted, and incarcerated a large number of people struggling with the psychological realities of war, and it has inflicted humiliation, ridicule, and shame on many more. Through a far-reaching historical account, Russell and Figley detail how the military has perpetuated a self-inflicted crisis. The book concludes with actionable prescriptions for change and a comprehensive approach to significantly improving military mental health"--
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Yudelson, Jerry.
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720.47 22
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2008
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Rice, Thomas H.
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338.433621 22
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2009
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Schneider, Suzanne D., 1973-
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362.12097249 22
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2010
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This very human study of emerging medical services in Morelos, Mexico, illustrates the variety of grassroot solutions to health care delivery in response to rising costs and restrictions on access.
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Blendon, Robert.
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362.10973 22
Publication Date
2011
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Objective analysis and comprehensive data on Americans' attitudes about key health-care issues.
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Doble, Mukesh.
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660 22
Publication Date
2007
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Chemical processes provide a diverse array of valuable products and materials used in applications ranging from health care to transportation and food processing. Yet these same chemical processes that provide products and materials essential to modern economies, also generate substantial quantities of wastes and emissions. Green Chemistry is the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in design. Due to extravagant costs needed to managing these wastes, tens of billions of dollars a year, there is a need to propose a way to cre.
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