health care reform

" This inside story of the legal challenge to Obamacare from a conservative constitutional lawyer involved in the movement is a brilliant mixture of legal, political, and media intrigue capped by a truly consequential Supreme Court decision"--.

Addressess health care today: the overtreatment of the rich; the undertreatment of the poor; the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians provide; the insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care; and the pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm.

Offers students an overview of various health care related topics, including health care reform and its impact on the economy, unemployment, and taxes, the controversy surrounding universal health care, the problems with the American health care system, health care costs, proposed reforms, and other related topics.

This book examines the critical debates on health care reform, discussing the signing of Medicare and Medicaid into law, health care as a human right, the Canadian health care system, President Obama's health plan, and mandatory health insurance.

Contains twenty-six essays in which various authors present opposing viewpoints on issues related to health care, discussing reform, managed care, and government intervention.

This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether the U.S. Health Care System is in good shape, whether reforming Medicare can help lower health care costs, and whether drug companies are to blame for rising health care costs.

Discusses what has gone wrong with the American way of health to create the crisis in which the author feels the U.S. is embroiled, and offers a solution that calls for a completely new culture of health and medicine.