Medical Gridlock And Health Reform

Ginzberg, Eli

Preface -- Introduction -- The Changing Health Care Scene: The Longest View -- Everything I Know About Health Care I Learned in the Pentagon in World War II -- The Impact of World War II on U.S. Medicine -- The Veterans Administration in a Vise -- Health Reform: Lessons from Employment, Housing, and Education -- The Reform of Medical Education -- Health Care and the Market -- The Limits of Health Reform Revisited -- Health Policy: The Old Era Passes -- Health Personnel: The Challenges Ahead -- Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations -- High-Tech Medicine -- Competition and Health Reform -- Hospitals, Doctors, and Global Budgets -- The Poor and the Uninsured -- Financing Health Care for the Poor: Second-Best Solutions -- Restructuring Health Services in New York City -- Access to Health Care for Hispanics -- Beyond Universal Health Insurance -- Toward Health Reform -- Health Care Reform: Why So Slow? -- Interest Groups and Health Reform -- Physicians and Health Care Reform -- Where Are We and Where Should We Be Going? -- President Clinton’s Design for Reform -- Credits