Prescription Drugs: Monopolies and Profits -- Hospitals : Profit First -- Physicians -- Health Plans : The Money Middlemen -- European Systems of Health-Care Delivery -- The Affordable Care Act of 2010 and Other Federal Health-Care Laws -- Emergency Departments -- The Medical Implant Device...

Dieser Band der Bad Orber Gespräche 2013 enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops zum Thema Versorgungsdefizite im deutschen Gesundheitswesen? Probleme der regionalen Versorgungsunterschiede, der Mengenentwicklung und Finanzierung im Krankenhausbereich, der...

Definitions of health and illness -- Public health : defining determinants of health -- Health status indicators -- Role of culture in the organization of health care systems -- Political and philosophical values that influence the US health care system -- Do we have as system? -- People who...

section 1. Introduction : setting the context -- section 2. Functional description of the U.S. health and medical care system -- section 3. Political and economic values and health care financing -- section 4. Health care reform in the United States : targeted programs and consequences.