Health care reform and disparities : history, hype, and hope / Toni P. Miles.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, Description: xxii, 213 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780313397684
  • 0313397686
  • 9780313397691
  • 0313397694
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 368.38/2 23
LOC classification:
  • RA395.A3 M4725 2012
NLM classification:
  • 2012 G-114
  • W 84 AA1
Contents:
Introduction: how to approach the problem of health disparities and health care reform -- Overview : Diminishing health disparities -- Beyond Medicaid -- Quality, disparity, and Title III -- Business models, disparity, and reform -- Lobbyists, advocates, and disparity -- Health care fraud -- Young adults -- Correctable disparity, the Affordable Care Act, and public health research.
Summary: "This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud create inequity the root cause of our dysfunctional health care system, and the reason for the rising cost of health care for all Americans"--Provided by publisher.
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"This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud create inequity the root cause of our dysfunctional health care system, and the reason for the rising cost of health care for all Americans"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: how to approach the problem of health disparities and health care reform -- Overview : Diminishing health disparities -- Beyond Medicaid -- Quality, disparity, and Title III -- Business models, disparity, and reform -- Lobbyists, advocates, and disparity -- Health care fraud -- Young adults -- Correctable disparity, the Affordable Care Act, and public health research.

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