Healthcare Systems -- Universal Healthcare Worldwide -- Universal Healthcare in the U.S. : History and Perspectives -- The Current U.S. Health Care System -- What are the Socioeconomic Consequences of Lack of Universal Healthcare in America? -- Does Universal Healthcare Lead to Worse Quality of...

This book provides key economic facts, explains the economic concepts needed to examine the implications of these facts, and summarizes the results of empirical studies regarding our healthcare system's access, cost, and quality problems as well as identifying six key trends that are reforming...

part Section I: Pressures for Change -- chapter 1 Access -- chapter 2 Cost -- chapter 3 Quality -- chapter Conclusion to Section I -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 4 Align Incentives via Payment System Design -- chapter 5 Managed Care Organizations, Accountable Care Organizations, and...