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Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing the United States since 1930
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Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing the United States since 1930
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Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing the United States since 1930
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In
, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care.
shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical servicesusing income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factorsis a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing. And unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most expensive health care system in the world.
While most histories of US health care emphasize failed policy reforms,
looks at the system from the ground up in order to examine how rationing is experienced by ordinary Americans and how experiences of rationing have led to claims for a right to health care. By taking this approach, Hoffman puts a much-needed human face on a topic that is too often dominated by talking heads.