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1 online resource (x, 227 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Realities -- 1. Some American Health Care Realities: Access to Needed Care; Quality of Care; Rising Costs -- Part II: Rights -- 2. A Right to Health Care: The Concept of a Right; For and Against a Right to Health Care -- 3. Utilitarianism: Optimal Consequences; Prudent Insurance -- 4. Egalitarianism: Equal Intrinsic Value; Substantive Equality -- 5. Libertarianism: Liberty and Ownership; Compensatory Rights -- 6. Contractarianism: The Social Contract; Liberty, Opportunity, and Wealth -- 7. Plural Foundations: Proof and Persons; Four Health Care Rights; Rights, Clarity, and Ideals -- Part III: Reforms -- 8. Market Reforms: Pure Competition; A Hobbled Market -- 9. DRGs, HMOs, and Vouchers: Price Controls; Prepaid Group Practice; Cash and Voucher Plans -- 10. National Health Care Plans: Medicare and Medicaid; National Health Insurance; A National Health Care Service. |
| Summary |
This book provides a moral evaluation of American health care. It is in three main parts: a review and analysis of conditions bearing on access to quality health care, a philosophical analysis and defence of the concept of a moral right to health care, and a discussion of various policy alternatives for reform of the US system for delivering health care. The first chapter demonstrates that many Americans, especially among blacks, persons from low income families, and those with less education, are underserved by the present system. Persons in these groups have significantly worse health characteristics than other Americans. Do these persons have a right to health care? If so, to what kinds of care and how much? In part two, four contemporary theories of justice and of peoples' rights - utilitarianism, egalitarianism, libertarianism, and contractarianism - are examined and their implications for a right to health care described. Each theory is then discussed in terms of a right to health care that encompasses non-interference with one's health, primary care, curative care under some circumstances, and the freedom to buy additional health care not guaranteed by right.; What is to be done? This is the central question of the third part, which examines and evaluates alternative directions for reform of the American health care system. |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical care -- United States.
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Medical care. |
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United States. |
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Medical care -- Utilization -- United States.
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Medical care -- Utilization. |
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Medical policy. |
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Health Policy. |
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Public Health Administration. |
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Delivery of Health Care. |
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United States. |
| Indexed Term |
United States Health services |
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Electronic books.
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Medical care. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dougherty, Charles J., 1949- American health care. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988 (DLC) 87015375 |
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Online version: Dougherty, Charles J., 1949- American health care. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988 (OCoLC)762512708 |
| ISBN |
1429400994 (electronic book) |
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9781429400992 (electronic book) |
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0195052714 |
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9780195052718 |
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0195052722 (paperback) |
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9780195052725 (paperback) |
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1280523417 |
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9781280523410 |
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