The Truth about Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America

by David Mechanic

Book Overview

The United States spends greatly more per person on health care than any other country but the evidence shows that care is often poor and inappropriate. Despite expenditures of 1.7 trillion dollars in 2003, and growing substantially each year, services remain fragmented and poorly coordinated, and more than 46 million people are uninsured. Why can't America, with its vast array of resources, sophisticated technologies, superior medical research and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813543525
• ISBN13: 9780813543529
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Critical Analysis by an Expert on Health Care

A slim volume, this book is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand and improve health care for everyone--by making the system work better for those who currently have access and helping to craft workable solutions to the millions left out. David Mechanic has been writing about health care for decades. Mechanic's incisive analysis gets at the fundamental conflicts of values and cash behind the intractable problem of health and health care in the United States.