Medicine's dilemmas : [electronic resource] infinite needs versus finite resources / William L. Kissick.
By: Kissick, William L.
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TextSeries: [A Yale fastback]. Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1994Description: xix, 185 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0300059647 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780300059649 (cloth : alk. paper); 0300059655 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780300059656 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Medical care -- United States -- Cost control | Medical policy -- United States | Medical economics -- United States | Health services Economics | United States | Gezondheidszorg | Management | Beleid | Delivery of Health Care -- United States | Insurance, Health -- United States | Public Policy -- United StatesDDC classification: 338.4/73621/0973 Other classification: 44.05 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library Series statement from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-174) and index.
Ch. 1. Somebody Has to Pay -- Ch. 2. Health-Care Issues of the 1990s -- Ch. 3. An Infinite Quest -- Ch. 4. A Cultural Affair -- Ch. 5. Resource Allocation -- Ch. 6. Medicine and Management -- Ch. 7. The Past as Prologue -- Ch. 8. National Health Insurance -- Ch. 9. "To the States Respectively" -- Ch. 10. Promoting the General Welfare -- Ch. 11. Hang Together or Hang Separately -- Ch. 12. Health Care for the Twenty-first Century.