Falling Through the Safety Net: Insurance Status and Access to Health Care - Softcover

Weissman, Joel S; Epstein, Arnold M

 
9781587982446: Falling Through the Safety Net: Insurance Status and Access to Health Care
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1587982447 ISBN 13: 9781587982446
Publisher: Beard Books, 2004

Synopsis

This book describes the history and structure of health insurance in the U.S. and relates existing patterns of insurance coverage to important variations in the use of health services and patient outcomes. The forewaord was written by Hllary Rodham Clinton.

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Review

"This book should provoke researchers and policy makers to think in a broad context about ways we can make health care more accessible and seek ways we can eliminate the problem of people being uninsured."--from the Foreword, by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Synopsis

When this book was first published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1994, the US health care system was in crisis. In the decade or so since the situation has become worse. Weissman (medicine and health care policy, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School) and Epstein (health policy and management, Harvard U. School of Public

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Publisher
Beard Books
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1587982447
ISBN 13 
9781587982446
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
212

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