Health Care Turning Point Why Single Payer Won't Work

Name: Health Care Turning Point Why Single Payer Won't Work
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ISBN: 9780262014076

ISBN-10: 0262014076

ISBN-13: 9780262014076

Edition: 2010

Authors: Roger M. Battistella

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The battle over health care reform has reached a turning point. We can try to fashion new policies based on old ideasâ€”or we can acknowledge today's demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point,health policy expert Roger Battistella argues that the conventional wisdom that dominates health policy debates is out of date. Battistella takes on popular misconceptions about the advantages of single-payer plans, the role of the market, and other health policy issues and outlines a pragmatic new approach. Few would disagree that the current system is broken. Employer-supplied health insurance no longer works; it imposes a heavy burden on American companies when they compete…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/5/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Health Policy: Then and Now



Resistance to Change



Contemporary Challenges



Contemporary Realities



Popular Misconceptions



Health Policy Reconfigured


References


Index