The Public-Private Health Care State: Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy

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Edition: 1
Release: 2007-01-23
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0765803496
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States. The Public-Private Health Care State explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health care in terms of its history and its continuing evolution today. Historian and policy analyst Rosemary Stevens has selected and edited seventeen essays from both her published and unpublished work to illustrate continuing themes, such as: the flexible meanings of the terms "public" and "private," and how useful their ambiguity has been and is; the role of ideology as ratifying rather than preordaining change; and the common behavior of public leaders and corporate entities in the face of fiscal opportunity.   The topics--covering the period of 1870 through the twenty-first century--represent Stevens' research interests in hospital history and policy, the medical profession, government Download The Public-Private Health Care State for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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