"This book provides an extensive and rich compilation of research on the role of public policy in the healthcare sector and how policy reform will impact the future of healthcare delivery and administration"--

Part I: The organization and function of the American Health Care System. Why health and health care matter -- How America's health system works -- How we pay for health care -- The polities of health care -- Part II: Problems and challenges facing the American Health Care System. A holistic...

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...

All the King's Men -- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose -- The UnHappiness Project -- Customer Satisfaction -- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For -- The Rating Game -- The Mother of All Nudges -- Your Health Is about More Than Just Your Health -- Needle in a Haystack -- Ghost in the Machine --...

"This book provides a comprehensive introduction to significant U.S. health policy controversies, including Democratic and Republican responses to the coronavirus pandemic. It explores partisan divisions, major challenges, and policy preferences of key Democratic and Republican stakeholders."

Bipartisanship In Health Care during the Later Twentieth Century -- Building on the Bipartisanship That Gained Passage of Medicare and Medicaid -- Health Care Reform under the Obama Administration -- Growing Congressional Opposition to the Affordable Care Act -- Efforts to Repeal the Affordable...

"Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System, fifth edition, is a clear and concise distillation of the major topics covered in the best-selling Delivering Health Care in America by the same authors. This edition is a well-organized resource that covers the major characteristics, foundations, and...