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Patients As Consumers: Making The Health Care System Our Own., David J. Lansky
Patients As Consumers: Making The Health Care System Our Own., David J. Lansky
Center for Policy Research
I ask you to think about our health care system. Think beyond the issues that are in front of us today: the anxiety we have about managed care, obtaining our own health care and paying for it, the survival of Medicare, and the unpredictable impact of government regulations. Think about our *health*, what we want from our health care system, what we're spending all this money for, and what we care about for ourselves and for our families. The challenge we face in the next five, ten, or fifteen years is to place the American health care system under the …
New Conundrums: Public Policy And The Emerging Health Care Marketplace, James R. Tallon
New Conundrums: Public Policy And The Emerging Health Care Marketplace, James R. Tallon
Center for Policy Research
There is a fundamentally new dynamic in American health care, one that has yet to be fully experienced but that threatens to leave a large portion of the American population without access to the quality health care they have received in the past. While the federal government has not completely abandoned the goal of assuring universal health care, a goal that dates back to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s and even earlier, the mechanisms to pursue that goal have changed. The implicit contract between government and health care providers--mostly doctors and not-for-profit hospitals--under which subsidized care …