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| Tables and Figures | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Health Care: an International Perspective | |
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| Health Care Paradigms | |
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| Health Services Continuum | |
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| Convergence among Health Systems | |
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| Limits to Convergence | |
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| Parameters of the Study | |
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| Managing the U.S. Health Care System | |
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| A System in Constant Flux | |
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| Health Insurance Coverage in the United States | |
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| Back to the Future | |
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| Health Care Reform Takes Center Stage | |
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| Managed Care's Transformation of the U.S. Health Care System | |
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| From There to Here | |
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| Managed Care's Impact on Provider Payment | |
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| Managed Care as Effective Agent of Cost Control | |
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| Costs: What Goes Down Must Come Up | |
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| Managed Care under Fire | |
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| The Future: Incremental Approach as the Only Game in Town | |
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| It Ain't Over Yet | |
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| German Health Care: Bismarck's Grand (and Enduring) Design | |
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| Overview of the German Health Care System | |
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| Health Care Expenditures, Then and Now | |
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| Present at the Creation: Tracing the Roots of National Health Insurance | |
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| The Current System: Health Care Benefits, Organization, and Financing | |
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| Outside the Sickness Fund System: The Privately Insured | |
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| Long-Term Care Insurance Program | |
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| Health Care Delivery | |
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| Twenty Years of Health Care Cost Control: 1977-Present | |
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| Health Care Reform as a Permanent State? | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Health Care in the Netherlands: Managed Competition Goes Dutch | |
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| Overview of the Dutch Health Care System | |
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| Dutch Health Care: History and Current Organization | |
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| Health Care Financing | |
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| Health Care Delivery | |
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| Health Care Reform in the Netherlands | |
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| Outlook for the Future | |
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| Changing Roles in the Dutch Health Care Sector | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Made in Japan: Universal Health Insurance | |
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| The Japanese Advantage | |
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| Confluence of East and West | |
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| Legislating Health Insurance Coverage | |
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| Organized Complexity | |
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| Health Care Delivery | |
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| Controlling Health Care Costs: Nationwide Fee Schedule | |
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| The Sun Also Sets on Japanese Health Care | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Northern Exposure: Canada's National Health Insurance System | |
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| Overview of Canadian Health Care | |
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| Canadian National Health Insurance: A Long Time Coming | |
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| Medicare Is Born | |
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| Political and Cultural Underpinnings of Canadian Health Care | |
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| Health Care Delivery in Canada | |
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| Canadian Health Care Financing | |
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| Health Care Cost-Control, Canadian-Style | |
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| The Future of Canadian Health Care | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Reforming the British National Health Service | |
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| Overview of British Health Care | |
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| Britain's Sacred Cow: The National Health Service | |
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| NHS Financing | |
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| Health Care Delivery | |
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| The Role of the Private Sector | |
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| NHS Reforms: Working for Patients | |
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| Toward the NHS's Next Half Century | |
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| Convergence | |
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| International Experience and U.S. Health Care | |
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| The United States Is Unique | |
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| Limited Convergence among Systems | |
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| Aging Populations | |
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| The Future of U.S. Health Care | |
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| Six Systems at a Glance | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |