Political Analysis and American Medical Care: Essays
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 5/6/2009
EAN 9780521283526, ISBN10: 0521283523
Paperback, 292 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
The role of government in medical care, however contentious and bewildering, is increasingly important given that the finance of medical care in Western democracies is now dominated by public expenditures. Why do governments choose the medical programs they do? How do particular struggles in medical care illustrate more general political conflicts? This book stems from Marmor's conviction that political science can provide answers to questions such as these. Furthermore, the essays presented here demonstrate that political analysis is a crucial element of any sensible approach to policy making. The essays are grouped intro three parts. Firstly, how the general findings of a political science illuminate disputes over medical care. Secondly, looks at political conflict in American medicine, such as paying doctors, representing consumers and restraining inflation. Lastly, the essays tie different sorts of political analysis to the appraisal of issues such as national health insurance in the 1970s and procompetitive reform in the early 1980s.
Introduction
Part I. The Perspective of Political Science
1. Political science and health services administration Theodore R. Marmor and Andrew Dunham
2. Comparative politics and health policies
notes on benefits, costs, limits Theodore R. Marmor, Amy Bridges and Wayne L. Hoffman
Part II. Politics in the World of Medicine
3. The politics of medical inflation Theodore R. Marmor, Donald A. Wittman and Thomas C. Heagy
4. Representing consumer interests
the case of American health planning James A. Morone and Theodore R. Marmor
5. American health planning and the lessons of comparative policy analysis Theodore R. Marmor and Amy Bridges
6. Doctors, politics and pay disputers
'pressure group politics' revisited Theodore R. Marmor and David Thomas
7. The health programs of the Kennedy-Johnson years
an overview Theodore R. Marmor with James A. Morone
Part III. The Politics of National Health Insurance
8. Welfare medicine
how success can be a failure Theodore R. Marmor
9. National Health Insurance
some lessons from the Canadian experience Theodore R. Marmor, Wayne L. Hoffman and Thomas C. Heagy
10. Rethinking National Health Insurance Theodore R. Marmor
11. Patient cost sharing Douglas Conrad and Theodore R. Marmor
Epilogue
12. Medical care and procompetitive reform Theodore R. Marmor, Richard Boyer and Julie Greenberg
Index.