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Understanding Health Policy (Lange)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 362
EAN: 9780071423113
Edition: 4
ISBN: 0071423117
Label: McGraw-Hill Medical
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published),
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 388
Publication Date: December 01, 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Studio: McGraw-Hill Medical
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Editorial Review:"This highly readable text gives a broad but detailed picture of how health care is organized and dispensed in the United States." -Annals of Internal Medicine, on the First Edition
The #1 text on health policy, this well-known book provides a short introduction to U.S. health care policy by two leading experts who are themselves practicing physicians. The Fourth Edition features the latest information on cost containment, health insurance, managed care, hospital payment, and the new two-tier model of physician reimbursement.
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Rating:  - Excellent Text
I teach healthcare policy and am currently using this text. It does a great job covering the important issues. It's quite readable, as a new edition very topical and, through the use of vignettes, humanizes the consequences of policy decisions. It also has questions keyed to each chapter for assignment use. It is not an academic text and I am supplementing with articles (many of which can be found in the excellent references section following the chapters) as well as articles from news sources. Recommend ... Read More
Rating: - Understanding Health Policy, Bodenheimer and Grumbach
An excellent explanation of the current status of the American health care issues. Up to date data is an extra.
Rating:  - concise!!
Very concise overview of health policy, which makes it a perfect read for the many US med students who are only interested in a superficial understanding of complex social processes.
Rating: - Book great for class
This book was required for class but it gave a great overview of different health care policies in the US and abroad.
Rating:  - Good overview, but only half the story
As another reviewer noted, this book starts from the premise that health care is a right. As a result of this perspective, the first several chapters feature "sob stories" on nearly every page detailing hypothetical examples of people who are put in a bad situation in our current system. Now, our current system is deeply flawed and any unbiased observer would concede this point, but it struck me as odd that the authors would commenti so heavily on the shortfalls of the American system, and so little on ... Read More
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