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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 19 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Emily Durante. |
| Summary |
For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've left out of our tally the most impactful expenditures countries make to improve the health of their populations-investments in social services. In The American Health Care Paradox, Bradley and Taylor illuminate how narrow definitions of "health care," archaic divisions in the distribution of health and social services, and our allergy to government programs combine to create needless suffering in individual lives, even as health care spending continues to soar. They show us how and why the US health care "system" developed as it did; examine the constraints on, and possibilities for, reform; and profile inspiring new initiatives from around the world. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Health planning -- United States.
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Health care reform -- United States.
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Medical care, Cost of -- United States.
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Social service -- United States.
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Taylor, Lauren A., author.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977326812 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977326811 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12122264 |
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