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Proposals to reform the health care system do not guarantee the creation of a system with the quality of care patients want or the flexibility clinicians need. Here, Luft presents a comprehensive new proposal, which does all that while providing affordable health insurance for every American.
Health Maintenance Organizations
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The Fifth Edition of this best-selling health policy text is updated with a collection of new articles on various health policies. Health Policy provides a basic overview of the health policy and political process as it relates to thte health status of the US, the organization and issues of the healthcare system, and healthcare economics.
Synthesis of the available information on health maintenance organizations (HMOs); a summary of what is and is not known about claims, the expectations, current research findings of HMO performance, and a bibliography. Cf. Rept. documentation p.
Organ transplantation as a high-cost surgical and medical procedure poses an extraordinarily rich and complex set of social, ethical, and policy issues. A June 1988 symposium at Vanderbilt University gathered leaders in a wide variety of fields to synthesize the current state of knowledge concerning organ transplantation policy and to access policy options. Collected here are the revised papers presented at that symposium; also included is one influential earlier paper on the same topic. Together, they constitute a major contribution to the debate on organ transplantation policy and its moral, legal, financial, and political implications.