Self-interest and universal health care why well-insured Americans should support coverage for everyone
I'm covered - why should I foot the bill for somebody who isn't? This question, unspoken but simmering at the center of the debate over universal health care coverage, comes in for a thoughtful hearing - and, perhaps, gentle corrective - in Larry Churchill's timely book. Churchill, wh...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Mass. u.a.
Harvard Univ. Press
1994
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Gezondheidszorg
> Ziektekostenverzekering
> Gesundheitswesen
> Politik
> Health Care Reform
> Health Services Accessibility
> Health care reform
> Health insurance
> Government policy
> Health services accessibility
> Human Rights
> Insurance, Health
> Right to health care
> Solidaritätsprinzip
> Krankenversicherung
> Gesundheitspolitik
> USA
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | I'm covered - why should I foot the bill for somebody who isn't? This question, unspoken but simmering at the center of the debate over universal health care coverage, comes in for a thoughtful hearing - and, perhaps, gentle corrective - in Larry Churchill's timely book. Churchill, whose Rationing Health Care in America put the nation's health care crisis into perspective here does the same for our crisis of conscience over health care coverage As Clinton and Congress spar over the financing and organization of a national health care system, the true debate, this book reveals, is about moral and political values, about the meaning and ethics of health care reform Churchill begins by cutting through the confused discussion about rationing health care. Concerns about rationing, with all the moral and political questions they raise, deflect our attention from a more important issue, which this book brings into focus. Arguing that care is already rationed by ability to pay, Churchill suggests that the proper question is not whether to ration but how to do so fairly, and that answering requires a clear sense of the aims of a health care system |
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| Beschreibung: | XI, 110 S. |
| ISBN: | 0674800923 0-674-80092-3 |