Falling Through The Safety Net: Insurance Status And Access To Health Care

Weissman, Joel S.; Epstein, Arnold M.

ISBN 10: 1587982447 / ISBN 13: 9781587982446

Published by Beard Books Inc, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling Through The Safety Net: Insurance Status And Access To Health Care
• Publisher: Beard Books Inc
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587982447
• ISBN 13: 9781587982446
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

When this book was first published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1994, the US health care system was in crisis. In the decade or so since the situation has become worse. Weissman (medicine and health care policy, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School) and Epstein (health policy and management, Harvard U. School of Public Health) work from their 1992 report to the US Office of Technology Assessment and a series of their lectures to provide a basic reference for those who seek to provide care for the uninsured and the underinsured. The authors provide a framework for understanding the essential issues, such as why the uninsured are more likely to need care, and offer a series of unexpected questions researchers and policy-makers should ask when addressing the issues of lack of coverage, and thereby, lack of care. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author

Arnold M. Epstein, M.D., M.A., is Chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University School of Public Health as well as Chief of the Section on Health Services and Policy Research in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Joel S. Weissman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.