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Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

Hoffman, Beatrix

Paperback

Medical Reference20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 022610219X
ISBN13: 9780226102191
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Aug 22 2013
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.03 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care. Health Care for Some shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical services--using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factors--is a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing. And unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most expensive health care system in the world.

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