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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 | |