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Health care for some : rights and rationing in the United States since 1930 / Beatrix Hoffman.

By: Hoffman, Beatrix Rebecca [author.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-291) and index.Description: xxxv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226348032 (cloth : alkaline paper); 0226348032 (cloth : alkaline paper).Subject(s): Right to health -- United States -- History | Health services accessibility -- United States -- History | Health care rationing -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 362.1
Contents:
Prologue : rights and rationing before 1930 -- The struggle for health care in the Great Depression. A crisis of access ; Social security without health security -- Prosperity and exclusion, 1941-64. Health care at war ; Rights to refuse : the triumph of the hospital ; Rationing by coverage : the rise of private health insurance -- New entitlements and new movements, 1965-80. Entitlements but not rights : Medicare and Medicaid ; The rise of health care activism -- Rights vs. markets, 1981-2008. Emergency rooms and epidemics ; At the breaking point -- Epilogue : rights, rationing, and reform.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 362.1 H675 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003135902

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-291) and index.

Prologue : rights and rationing before 1930 -- The struggle for health care in the Great Depression. A crisis of access ; Social security without health security -- Prosperity and exclusion, 1941-64. Health care at war ; Rights to refuse : the triumph of the hospital ; Rationing by coverage : the rise of private health insurance -- New entitlements and new movements, 1965-80. Entitlements but not rights : Medicare and Medicaid ; The rise of health care activism -- Rights vs. markets, 1981-2008. Emergency rooms and epidemics ; At the breaking point -- Epilogue : rights, rationing, and reform.

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