Health of the Nation; Health of the Planet: Should Employers Be Responsible for Providing Health Insurance?
Many people gain access to the healthcare system through insurance that is provided at least in part by their employer. And yet, most uninsured people are employed, almost half full time. In many countries it is the employer's responsibility to prov...
Health of the Nation; Health of the Planet: Medical Priorities and Supply-side Controls
Policy makers not only seek to make baseline health care available to everyone, but are asked to determine what kinds of medical needs should be given priority. Great Britain has been making what are essentially rationing decisions for decades, spen...
Health of the Nation; Health of the Planet: Is Affordable Healthcare an Individual or Governmental Responsible?
Congressman Jim McDermott argues that it is government's responsibility to see that everyone has healthcare that cannot be taken away. The United States, Mexico and Turkey lead the industrialized nations of the world in numbers of people without hea...
Taking the Pulse: Health Care Outside the United States
In most industrialized nations outside the United States, universal health care coverage is commonplace and access to treatment is not based on the patient's ability to pay.
What Price?: Emergence and Impact of managed Care, The
The fact that most medical expenditures are paid by health insurance often blinds us to the actual costs of medical care. Despite the initiation of cost-saving measures known as "managed care" in the mid 1980s the cost of health insurance continues ...
What Price?: Factors Contributing to Rising Cost of Healthcare
Why have healthcare costs risen so precipitously? For one thing, the medical scene itself has changed, as Dr. William Schwartz, author of The Painful Prescription remembers. In the 1950s health-related expenditures comprised 5 percent or less of gro...
What Price?: Healthcare Dilemma: Do Other Nations Have the Answer?, The
Are there approaches to health care or decision-making models other countries use that might prove helpful? Dr. William Schwartz comments on the results of his investigation of the British healthcare system. From an international perspective, most c...
What Price?: Healthcare Dilemma: Efficiency of the Healthcare Delivery System
Another factor in the healthcare equation is the efficiency of the delivery system itself. Many hospitals have not been operating at full capacity; some are closing for this reason. Hospitals with trauma centers find it particularly expensive to mai...
What Price?: Healthcare Dilemma: No Easy Answer, The
Competing need...limited dollars. Should more people be served a little less well or should medical care be provided, regardless of cost, to anyone who can afford to pay for it? Renowned health policy experts and health care professionals probe the ...
What Price?: Healthcare Dilemma: Solution Strategies, The
In the last few years, many healthcare solution strategies have been placed on the table. The fact that no definitive course of action has been adopted reflects the complexities of the issues involved. Equitable access to the healthcare system, many...