Week of August 3, 2009 – Note: “In the News” returns with a new post on August 17, 2009
News Item: One of the main topics discussed daily on blogs, in magazines and newspapers, and on television and radio news programs is health care reform. What is it? Who will benefit? Why should we care? How will it all come together? Some key terms that come to mind regarding this important issue:
managed care • Medicare • small businesses • big government • health plan • choice • costs • HMO • taxes • universal coverage • health insurance • single-payer • doctors • lobbyists • insurance corporations • pharmaceutical companies • uninsured • workers • consumers • policy • PPO • prescription drugs • physicians • patients • sickness • wellness…
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At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients…and What We Can Do About It
By Howard Waitzkin. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
Call Number: RA418.3 .U6 W35 2001
Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Healthcare
By David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler. Common Courage Press, 2001
Call Number: RA413 .H54 2001
Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management
Edited by Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice, and Gerald F. Kominski. Jossey-Bass, 2007
Call Number: RA395 .A3 C478 2007 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It
By David Dranove. Princeton University Press, 2008
Call Number: RA395 .A3 D743 2008
Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers
Edited Regina E. Herzlinger. Jossey-Bass, 2004
Call Number: RA394 .C685 2004 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
By Tom Daschle. Thomas Dunne Books, 2008
Call Number: RA395 .A3 D375 2008
Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business–and Bad Medicine
By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. Doubleday, 2004
Call Number: RA410.53 .B37 2004
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Medicare
By Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving. AEI Press, 2007
Call Number: RA412.3 .R4798 2007
The Economic Evolution of American Health Care: From Marcus Welby to Managed Care
By David Dranove. Princeton University Press, 2000
Call Number: Call Number: RA413 .D73 2000 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
By David Cay Johnson. Portfolio, 2007
Call Number: HC110 .S9 J64 2007
Healing Body and Mind: A Critical Issue for Health Care Reform
By Roger Kathol and Suzanne Gatteau. Praeger Publishers, 2007
Call Number: RA790.6 .K38 2007 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
By Timothy Stoltzfus Jost. Duke University Press, 2007
Call Number: RA394 .J67 2007
Health Care Crisis in America
Edited by Janet B. Prince. Novinka Books, 2006
Call Number: RA395 .A3 H3945 2006
Health Care in the New Millennium: Visions, Values, and Leadership
By Ian Morrison. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000
Call Number: RA395 .A3 M675 2000
Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change
By George C. Halvorson. Jossey-Bass, 2007
Call Number: RA395 .A3 H3449 2007
The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition
By Carl F. Ameringer. University of California Press, 2008
Call Number: RA395 .A3 A5974 2008
Health Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It
By Michael F. Cannon & Michael D. Tanner. Cato Institute, 2007
Call Number: RA395 .A3 C36 2007
Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health
By Donald A. Barr. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Call Number: RA418.3 .U6 B37 2008
Health Policy and the Uninsured
Edited by Catherine G. McLaughlin. Urban Institute Press, 2004
Call Number: RA395 .A3 B44 2006
Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America’s Largest Service Industry
By Regina E. Herzlinger. Addison-Wesley Pub., 1997
Call Number: RA410.53 .H485 1997
Medicare: A Policy Primer
By Marilyn Moon. Urban Institute Press, 2006
Call NUmber: RA412.3 .M658 2006
Medicare and Medicaid: Critical Issues and Developments
Edited by Marlene C. Peltz. Nova Science Publishers, 2007
Call Number: RA412.3 .M42723 2007
Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care
By Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
Call Number: RA412.3 .M39 2006
Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System
By J. D. Kleinke. Jossey-Bass, 2001
Call Number: RA445 .K56 2001
Prescription Drugs: Pricing, Importance, and Medicare Coverage
Edited by Charles B. Norton. Nova Science Publishers, 2004
Call Number: RA412.3 .P725 2004
Private Discount, Public Subsidies: How the Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Really Works
By Joseph Antos and Ximena Pinell. AEI Press, 2004
Call Number: HG9391.5 .U6 A58 2004
Reforming Medicare: Options, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities
By Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew. Brookings Institution Press, 2008
Call Number: RA412.3 .A27 2008
Remaking American Medicine: Health Care for the 21st Century (DVD)
Produced by Crosskeys Media. PBS Home Video, 2006
Call Number: RA399 .A3 R46 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Rx for Health Care Reform
By Ken Terry. Vanderbilt University Press, 2007
Call Number: RA395 .A3 T455 2007
A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Healthcare: A Plan for Universal Coverage Serving Patients over Profit
By Arnold S. Relman. PublicAffairs, 2007
Call Number: RA395 .A3 R45 2007
A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance
By Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance. National Academies Press, 2003
Call Number: RA413.7 .U53 I584 2003 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
Sick Around the World (DVD)
Directed by Jon Palfreman. PBS Home Video, 2008
Call Number: RA394 .S553 2008
Sicko (DVD)
Directed by Michael Moore. Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment
Call Number: RA395 .A3 S495 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Solving the Health Care Problem: How Other Nations Succeeded and Why the United States Has Not
By Pamela Behan. SUNY Press, 2006
Call Number: RA395 .A3 B44 2006 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
The Trust Crisis in Healthcare: Causes, Consequences, and Cures
Edited by David A. Shore. Oxford University Press, 2007
Call Number: RA445 .T78 2007
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (DVD)
California Newsreel, 2008
Call Number: RA448.4 .U56 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
By Beatrix Hoffman. University of North Carolina Press, 2001
Call Number: HG9396 .H638 2001 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
Who Should Pay for Medicare?
By Daniel Shaviro. University of Chicago Press, 2004
Call Number: RA412.3 .S53 2004
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in Overtreated America
By Nortin M. Hadler. University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Call Number: RA395 .A3 H332 2008 (Also available online via NetLibrary)