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| Understanding Health Policy (Lange) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 156313
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 388
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0071423117
Dewey Decimal Number: 362
EAN: 9780071423113
ASIN: 0071423117
Publication Date: December 1, 2004
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 Outstanding overview of healthcare system in USA July 5, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is probably the best single text I have read on healthcare policy issues in the USA. The books addresses every relevant aspect of our system. Unlike other excellent books, such as Dr. Arnold Relman's book, A Second Opinion, which analyzes the system, then makes recommendations on how to reform it, the authors here mainly explicate. The format of the book includes brief, usually fictitious, vignettes about physicians, patients or administrators that illustrate the points the authors present. That format - combined with the simply-presented, clear narrative and analysis - works very well. I also find the references to be excellent. Aside from Dr. Relman's book, I recommend any of the books by Prof. Victor Fuchs, in particular Who Shall Live?, books by Prof. Theodore Marmor and the classic by Prof. Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine. There are many other excellent books and articles by a wide range of insightful analysts. These kinds of books are invaluable for understanding the issues in healthcare. So much of the information that filters through to the average person via news reports, propaganda issued by parties with vested interests to protect and superficial proposals from polticians is inaccurate and misleading, usually grossly so. Reading a book such as this goes a very long way towards cutting through that clutter regardless of one's personal experiences and prejudices.
 Good resource book! April 4, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a very good resource book for understanding the healthcare policy process. I think all undergraduate nursing students could benefit from having this book in their collection.
 Should health care be a right? August 22, 2007
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
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"!
Understanding Health Policy July 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is very well written. Though it crams a lot of information into a small number of pages, it is easy to understand. It is excellent at covering all angles of a topic.
This is a good book November 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We use this book in the Health Care Policy class for which I am a teaching assistant. It is a good, basic introduction to most of the important issues in health policy and the students give it high marks for clarity and comprehensiveness. It is easy to read and to understand.
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