Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930 Pdf Reviews

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Release: 2012-09-15
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0226348032
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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The 2010 Affordable Care Act is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed country in the world considers health care a right, the passage of the act in the United States was hard fought because of a staunch and vocal opposition to universal health care among many American lawmakers. Why has the United States been so continually divided on this issue? In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an explanation in the form of an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care.
Hoffman argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American type of rationing. Health Care for Some shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical services—using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factors—is a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing. And unlike rationing in mo Download Health Care for Some for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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