| Chapter Guide Topic Guide | Personal Health | Disciplines
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| Chapter: Health Care | ||
| Add View | 23 pp. | Light: Health Care (Chapter) |
| There is growing concern and debate among politicians, corporate executives, doctors, patients, and citizens that the American health care system is becoming too costly and is not available to many people who need it. In order to promote some kind of reform that seems inevitable to the national health care system, this chapter examines the quality of health care in America, the problems of access — why and how, for instance, budget cutbacks have affected millions of people on Medicare and Medicaid — and what are the reasons for and the response to the rising cost of health care in the United States. | ||
| Add View | 17 pp. | Zussman: The Medical Profession, Health Care Reform & the Welfare State (Essay) |
| Top | The author argues that the welfare state displaces the professional authority of physicians and undermines the cultural authority of medicine. | |