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A consultant specializing in health, retirement, and human resource issues, Graig updates her comparative study of health care delivery systems in six big industrialized countries. The second edition appeared early in the first Clinton administration when a general overhaul of the system seemed likely. Her focus is to explore what works elsewhere and could be folded into US reform should that ever happen. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Although policy makers agree that America's costly, fragmented health care system is inadequate, they have not yet reached consensus on how it should be reformed.Comparing the health care systems of six industrialized nations - the United States, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, and the United Kingdom - the author assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each system, discusses the latest in health care policy research, and suggests how the lessons learned by other nations might be applied in the United States to produce lasting health care reform.
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