medical policy

Contains over three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the history, politics, and terminology of the debate over health care in America.

Examines current medical care in the United States focusing on people with inadequate coverage, unclean clinics and operating rooms, shrinking benefits, and health industries which are unable to solve the problems.

Explores how Congress has organized and equipped itself to make health care policy, and looks at two examples of health policy making--the 1988-89 adoption and repeal of medicare catastrophic coverage, and the 1993-94 failure to pass national health care reform laws.

Considers how other countries are able to offer affordable health care for their citizens and questions whether the United States will ever be able to do the same. Explores the various benefits offered by foreign health care systems and provides an assortment of guidelines the United States can follow to reform health care and benefit the public.

Features conflicting ideas and commentary on the issue of health care for the poor and minorities.

Discusses American health care and the changes that are proposed.

Examines the invention and reinvention of universal health care in the United States, examining a wide range of proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the twentieth century and explaining why they have failed.

Explores issues related to health care in the United States, discussing life expectancy, advancements in medicine, AIDS, cigarette smoking, the cost of care, end-of-life decisions, and public health threats.

Presents an overview of environmental factors that affect human health, assesses their dangers, and discusses the scientific and political complexities concerning a healthful environment.