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The book "Expanding Access to Health Care: A Management Approach Transformational Trends in Governance & Democracy" addresses the problems faced by the U.S. health care system, including lack of insurance coverage, rising costs, and uneven quality of care. It analyzes the administrative functions necessary for expanding health care coverage and compares current practices to proposed alternatives. The book draws on experiences from the U.S. and other countries and evaluates potential administrative approaches for improving and expanding health care coverage. It aims to provide a balanced understanding of the complex details of health care reform for policymakers, researchers, and citizens.
The U.S. health care system faces well-known problems: 47 million people without health insurance, rapidly rising costs that consume 16 percent of the country's economic output, and widely uneven quality of care. Even many people with coverage are experiencing serious problems paying for the rapidly rising costs of health care and insurance. This book - a joint product of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Academy of Social Insurance - undertakes a sweeping analysis of the management and administrative issues that arise in expanding health care coverage. The book identifies the core administrative functions that need to be performed in assuring access to health coverage, describes how these functions are performed at present and under proposed alternatives, draws lessons from experience in the U.S. and abroad, and assesses suggested administrative approaches designed to facilitate the improvement and expansion of health care coverage. Adequate health care is one of today's most crucial domestic policy concerns. Expanding Access to Health Care is designed to bring together in one place some of the best thinking on the subject, not as an exercise in advocacy, but rather to lay out the issues in a balanced way so that policymakers, researchers, and citizens can better understand the complex details of health care reform.
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