Healthcare Reform in America: A Reference Handbook

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

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This valuable handbook makes the U.S. health care system understandable, reviews the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or "Obamacare," describes past health care reform efforts, and covers the important organizations and people involved in U.S. health care reform. Why does the United States produce poorer outcomes for Americans in terms of health care than most other developed countries that spend a lower percentage of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on health care Should health insurance be private or should it be managed by the government The second edition of Healthcare Reform in America: A Reference Handbook addresses these complex and difficult questions and many more in its thorough treatment of one of the most controversial issues in contemporary American discourse. The work provides a broad introduction to the history and key issues in the development and reform of the U.S. health care system. It then addresses the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act and the myriad of significant expected changes due to the Act, thereby providing readers with information essential to understanding the current issues regarding health care reform. This work serves as a valuable resource to high school and college students as well as to general readers wanting to learn about the history and current focus of health care reform in the United States.

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The authors, a professor of sociology and a medical librarian, respectively, have created an accessible introduction to a complicated subject that will be appreciated by patrons in public, academic, and health-sciences libraries. * Booklist *

Author Bio

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, PhD, is professor in sociology, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Michael Kronenfeld, MLS, MBA, is university librarian at the A.T. Still University of the Health Sciences in Kirksville, MO, and Mesa, AZ.