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"This highly readable text gives a broad but detailed picture of how health care is organized and dispensed in the United States."-Annals of Internal Medicine, on the First EditionThe #1 text on health policy, this well-known book provides a short introduction to U.S. health care policy by two leading experts who are themselves practicing physicians. The Fourth Edition features the latest information on cost containment, health insurance, managed care, hospital payment, and the new two-tier model of physician reimbursement.
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In this fourth edition of an overview of challenges facing the healthcare system, Bodenheimer and Grumbach, both affiliated with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, incorporate recent changes in US healthcare policy, contrast the US system with healthcare abroad, and provide expanded information on managed care, physician and hospital payment, the healthcare workforce, and prevention of medical errors. Case histories, chapter questions, and discussion topics are included. The book is for students and practitioners in medicine, nursing, and public health. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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