Persons With Disabilities: Issues in Health Care Financing and Service Delivery (Brookings Dialogues on Public Policy) [Paperback]

Joshua M. Wiener (Editor), Steven B. Clauser (Editor), David L. Kennell (Editor)

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Publication Date: October 1995 | ISBN-10: 0815793790 | ISBN-13: 978-0815793793 | Edition: 1

A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This volume offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem, including the regulation of private long-term care insurance, catastrophic out-of-pocket costs, and the use of long-term care and acute care services by the chronically disabled elderly. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Lisa Alecxih, David Kennell, and John Corea, Lewin-VHI; Brian Burwell and William Crown, SysteMetrics; Terry Coughlin, Korbin Liu, and Sharon Long, Urban Institute; Judith Kasper, Johns Hopkins University; Kenneth Manton and P.J. Eric Stallard, Duke University; Jennifer Schore, Mathematica Policy Research; Catherine Sullivan, Brookings; and Bruce Vladeck, Health Care Financing Administration. Dialogues on Public Policy

Product Details

• Paperback: 324 pages
• Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr; 1 edition (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815793790
• ISBN-13: 978-0815793793
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars This book gives an excelant overview of its subject matter., September 4, 1999

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This review is from: Persons With Disabilities: Issues in Health Care Financing and Service Delivery (Brookings Dialogues on Public Policy) (Paperback)

In my opinion, this well compiled book gives an exceptionally clear and comprehensive overview of this often over complicated subject. Far to frequently do books on health care read like law school text books. This is a volume that addresses not only the legal but the financial, political and ethical issues that face this modern, dynamic industry. It does not over whelm with needless statistics or unnecessary individual cases but gives jus enough of each to back its claims and inform the reader. An excellent selection in this field.