TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bodenheimer,Thomas
AU  - Grumbach,Kevin
TI  - Understanding health policy: a clinical approach 
T2  - A Lange medical book
SN  - 9780071378154
AV  - RA395.A3 B63 2002
U1  - 362.10973 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division
KW  - Medical care
KW  - United States
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Delivery of Health Care
KW  - organization & administration
KW  - Health Care Costs
KW  - Health Care Rationing
KW  - National Health Insurance, United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the changing U.S. health care system -- Paying for health care -- Access to health care -- Reimbursing health care providers -- Capitation payment in managed care -- How health care is organized: I -- How health care is organized: II -- Painful versus painless cost control -- Mechanisms for controlling costs -- Long-term care -- The prevention of illness -- The quality of health care -- medical ethics and the rationing of health care -- Health care in four nations -- National health insurance -- Conflict and change in U.S. health care -- The health care workforce -- Conclusion: tensions and challenges
ER  -