Beginnings Count: the Technological Imperative in American Health Care Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 1997-01-15
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195111184
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In the wake of the recent unsuccessful drive for health care reform, many people have been asking themselves what brought about the failure of this as well as past attempts to make health care accessible to all Americans. The author of this original exploration of U.S. health policy supplies an answer that is bound to raise some eyebrows. After a careful analysis of the history and issues of health care, David Rothman concludes that it is the average employed, insured "middle class"--the vaguely defined majority of American citizens--who deny health care to the poor.
The author advances his argument through the examination of two distinctive characteristics of American health care and the intricate links between them: the ubiquitous presence of technology in medicine, and the fact that the U.S. lacks a national health insurance program. Technology bears the heaviest responsibility for the costliness of American medicine. Rothman traces the histories of the "iron lung" and kidney dia Download Beginnings Count for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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