US Health Policy and Health Care Delivery: Doctors, Reformers, and Entrepreneurs - Softcover

Ameringer, Carl F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107539846 ISBN 13: 9781107539846

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The unique composition and configuration of doctors and hospitals in the US is leading to a crisis in primary care provision. There are significantly more specialists than generalists, and many community hospitals and outpatient facilities are concentrated in affluent areas with high rates of comprehensive insurance coverage. These particular features present difficult challenges to policymakers seeking to increase access to care. Carl F. Ameringer shows why the road to universal healthcare is not built on universal finance alone. Policymakers in other countries successfully align finance with delivery to achieve better access, lower costs, and improved population health. This book explains how the US healthcare system developed, and why efforts to expand insurance coverage in the absence of significant changes to delivery will fuel higher costs without achieving the desired results.

About this title

Book Description:

Carl F. Ameringer's analysis of the relationship between health policy and healthcare delivery offers a fresh perspective on the current configuration of the US healthcare system, its historical roots, and its major differences with systems in other countries, particularly in the provision of primary and specialty care.

About the Author:

Carl F. Ameringer is retired Professor of Health Policy and Politics at Virginia Commonwealth University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1107539846
• ISBN 13: 9781107539846
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188