Competing solutions : American health care proposals and international experience

Title
  1. Competing solutions : American health care proposals and international experience / Joseph White.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, 1995.
Author
  1. White, Joseph, 1952-

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Description
  1. xv, 392 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Health care costs too much and too many Americans go without it. While every other advanced industrial nation has virtually universal access to decent, affordable medical care, the United States has been stuck in massive conflict over how to provide this service to its citizens. Guaranteeing access to and controlling the costs of health care are extremely difficult and complex, fraught with risks and uncertainties. But can the nation afford not to address health care reform?
  2. Most Americans recognize that something must be done, yet agreeing on a cure for the nation's health care woes has proved to be exceedingly difficult.
  3. Competing Solutions assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans. Joseph White examines the medical care systems of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom, revealing both the variety and the fundamental similarities of these systems. He shows how these countries have organized their financing and delivery of health care to achieve universal access and comparable quality care at much lower costs.
  4. He uses their experiences to explore the proper direction for American reform and to identify interesting alternatives.
Subject
  1. Medical care > Finance
  2. United States
  3. Health care reform > United States
  4. Medical care > Finance > Case studies
  5. Health Care Reform
  6. National Health Programs > economics
  7. Competitive Medical Plans > economics
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction: Health Care Choices -- Pt. 1. American Health Care and the International Standard. 2. Challenges and Choices for American Health Care. 3. The American Health Care System. 4. Canada and Germany: The Two Most Common Models. 5. Alternatives: Australia, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom. 6. Twentieth-Century Health Care Systems -- Pt. 2. Competing Solutions. 7. The Theory of Managed Competition. 8. Drafting Managed Competition. 9. The Clinton Plan: Managed Competition with a Global Budget. 10. Health Care Reform in America. Appendix: Technical Aspects of Managed Competition.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-379) and index.