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| Understanding Health Policy (LANGE Clinical Medicine) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
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Customer Ratings:  15 comments
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
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Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (pounds): 1.1
Dimensions (inch): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0071496068
Dewey Decimal Number: 614
EAN: 9780071496063
Publication Date: August 18, 2008
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 Book great for class September 15, 2008
This book was required for class but it gave a great overview of different health care policies in the US and abroad.
 Good overview, but only half the story November 14, 2007
1 out of 2 found this comment useful.
As another reviewer noted, this book starts from the premise that health care is a right. As a result of this perspective, the first several chapters feature "sob stories" on nearly every page detailing hypothetical examples of people who are put in a bad situation in our current system. Now, our current system is deeply flawed and any unbiased observer would concede this point, but it struck me as odd that the authors would commenti so heavily on the shortfalls of the American system, and so little on the shortfalls of "universal models" of the type they advocate (long waiting time for the majority of procedures, crowded emergency rooms, less use of advanced technologies, health care rationing, and many of the best doctors leaving the country).
In summary, this is a very well researched book and there is little if anything stated here that isn't true. There is, however, a great deal that is deemphasized or simply unsaid because it does not support the authors preconceived ideas of what an idea health care model ought to look like.
Everything You Want To Know November 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this comment useful.
This book turned out to be worth more than I paid for. It's an easy read - and gives you fictional stories explaining the concepts behind health care issues and scenarios to help you put into perspective what the author is talking about. The stories are extremely helpful if you are a newbie to public health and health care issues. Should be one of the books you keep on the shelf to refer to from time to time. You cant go wrong with this book.
 Should health care be a right? August 22, 2007
3 out of 12 found this comment useful.
Beware: This is an highly ideological text that starts with the assumption that health care is a right! It than goes on to say that in order to fulfill that right it is necessary to control the costs of health care. Obviously, cost control is a very problematic economic proposition that calls for state intervention and that sometimes has consequences that are the opposite of what is desired.
In the UK, where health care is a right, cost control has led to shortages, waiting lists and an overall degradation of health care. The UK, currently, has the highest mortality rates for oncological problems of all the EU countries and British people got used to flying to France and India for medical care. Canadians also have shortages and Canadians resort to the US.
Sometimes a "right" can easily turn into a "wrong"!
Easy to read July 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this comment useful.
I got this book for a graduate class that I am taking. This book uses clear language when presenting the material and has many mini "case studies" for examples, which makes it easy to read. Though I am required to read this book, it is not the standard, wall-of-text, that I am use to reading.
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