Political Analysis and American Medical Care : Essays (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I. The Perspective of Political Science: 1. Political science and health services administration Theodore R. Marmor and Andrew Dunham; 2. Comparative politics and health policies: notes on benefits, costs, limits Theodore R. Marmor, Amy Bridges and Wayne L. Hoffman; Part II. Politics in the World of Medicine: 3. The politics of medical inflation Theodore R. Marmor, Donald A. Wittman and Thomas C. Heagy; 4. Representing consumer interests: the case of American health planning James A. Morone and Theodore R. Marmor; 5. American health planning and the lessons of comparative policy analysis Theodore R. Marmor and Amy Bridges; 6. Doctors, politics and pay disputers: 'pressure group politics' revisited Theodore R. Marmor and David Thomas; 7. The health programs of the Kennedy-Johnson years: an overview Theodore R. Marmor with James A. Morone; Part III. The Politics of National Health Insurance: 8. Welfare medicine: how success can be a failure Theodore R. Marmor; 9. National Health Insurance: some lessons from the Canadian experience Theodore R. Marmor, Wayne L. Hoffman and Thomas C. Heagy; 10. Rethinking National Health Insurance Theodore R. Marmor; 11. Patient cost sharing Douglas Conrad and Theodore R. Marmor; Epilogue: 12. Medical care and procompetitive reform Theodore R. Marmor, Richard Boyer and Julie Greenberg; Index.