Toward a Healthy Society: The Morality and Politics of American Health Care Reform Pdf

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Edition: 1St Edition
Release: 2000-04
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0700610146
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Toward a Healthy Society pdf
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Few issues concern the American public today more than health care. Just ask anyone who has sat for hours in an HMO waiting room or made countless phone calls trying to have a claim settled--or anyone who can't get coverage. But whenever basic reform is proposed the insurance industry opens a massive campaign against it. Health care today is part of big business, which in defeating the Clinton plan successfully pushed any kind of basic reform off the political agenda. Continuing citizen support for some form of public insurance is, says Milton Fisk, a sign that basic reform is still possible. In his new book, he argues persuasively that basic reform goes beyond a matter of life and death--it's integral to maintaining a society where concern for others holds its own against the market. Health care, observes Fisk, is not simply an individual responsibility but a public good much like education, and commitment to the social values underlying these public goods is essenti Download Toward a Healthy Society for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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