{"id":1565,"date":"2009-08-03T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2012-04-24T11:47:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:47:16","slug":"in-the-news-reforming-our-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/in-the-news-reforming-our-health-care-system\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Reforming Our Health Care System"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of August 3, 2009<\/strong> – <\/strong>Note: “In the News” returns with a new post on August 17, 2009
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News Item: <\/strong>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:<\/p>\n

managed care \u2022 Medicare \u2022 small businesses \u2022 big government \u2022 health plan \u2022 choice \u2022 costs \u2022 HMO \u2022 taxes \u2022 universal coverage \u2022 health insurance \u2022 single-payer \u2022 doctors \u2022 lobbyists \u2022 insurance corporations \u2022 pharmaceutical companies \u2022 uninsured \u2022 workers \u2022 consumers \u2022 policy \u2022 PPO \u2022 prescription drugs \u2022 physicians \u2022 patients \u2022 sickness \u2022 wellness…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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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<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Howard Waitzkin. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
\nCall Number: RA418.3 .U6 W35 2001<\/p>\n

Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Healthcare<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler. Common Courage Press, 2001
\nCall Number: RA413 .H54 2001<\/p>\n

Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice, and Gerald F. Kominski. Jossey-Bass, 2007
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 C478 2007 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

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Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy David Dranove. Princeton University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 D743 2008<\/p>\n

Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited Regina E. Herzlinger. Jossey-Bass, 2004
\nCall Number: RA394 .C685 2004 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Tom Daschle. Thomas Dunne Books, 2008
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 D375 2008<\/p>\n

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business–and Bad Medicine<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. Doubleday, 2004
\nCall Number: RA410.53 .B37 2004<\/p>\n

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Medicare<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving. AEI Press, 2007
\nCall Number: RA412.3 .R4798 2007<\/p>\n

The Economic Evolution of American Health Care: From Marcus Welby to Managed Care<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By David Dranove. Princeton University Press, 2000
\nCall Number: Call Number: RA413 .D73 2000 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By David Cay Johnson. Portfolio, 2007
\nCall Number: HC110 .S9 J64 2007<\/p>\n

Healing Body and Mind: A Critical Issue for Health Care Reform<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Roger Kathol and Suzanne Gatteau. Praeger Publishers, 2007
\nCall Number: RA790.6 .K38 2007 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Timothy Stoltzfus Jost. Duke University Press, 2007
\nCall Number: RA394 .J67 2007<\/p>\n

Health Care Crisis in America<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Janet B. Prince. Novinka Books, 2006
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 H3945 2006<\/p>\n

Health Care in the New Millennium: Visions, Values, and Leadership<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Ian Morrison. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 M675 2000<\/p>\n

Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By George C. Halvorson. Jossey-Bass, 2007
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 H3449 2007<\/p>\n

The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Carl F. Ameringer. University of California Press, 2008
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 A5974 2008<\/p>\n

Health Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Michael F. Cannon & Michael D. Tanner. Cato Institute, 2007
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 C36 2007<\/p>\n

Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Donald A. Barr. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: RA418.3 .U6 B37 2008<\/p>\n

Health Policy and the Uninsured<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Catherine G. McLaughlin. Urban Institute Press, 2004
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 B44 2006<\/p>\n

Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America’s Largest Service Industry<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Regina E. Herzlinger. Addison-Wesley Pub., 1997
\nCall Number: RA410.53 .H485 1997<\/p>\n

Medicare: A Policy Primer<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Marilyn Moon. Urban Institute Press, 2006
\nCall NUmber: RA412.3 .M658 2006<\/p>\n

Medicare and Medicaid: Critical Issues and Developments<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Marlene C. Peltz. Nova Science Publishers, 2007
\nCall Number: RA412.3 .M42723 2007<\/p>\n

Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
\nCall Number: RA412.3 .M39 2006<\/p>\n

Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy J. D. Kleinke. Jossey-Bass, 2001
\nCall Number: RA445 .K56 2001<\/p>\n

Prescription Drugs: Pricing, Importance, and Medicare Coverage<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Charles B. Norton. Nova Science Publishers, 2004
\nCall Number: RA412.3 .P725 2004<\/p>\n

Private Discount, Public Subsidies: How the Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Really Works<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Joseph Antos and Ximena Pinell. AEI Press, 2004
\nCall Number: HG9391.5 .U6 A58 2004<\/p>\n

Reforming Medicare: Options, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew. Brookings Institution Press, 2008
\nCall Number: RA412.3 .A27 2008<\/p>\n

Remaking American Medicine: Health Care for the 21st Century <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\n<\/em>Produced by Crosskeys Media. PBS Home Video, 2006
\nCall Number: RA399 .A3 R46 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Rx for Health Care Reform<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Ken Terry. Vanderbilt University Press, 2007
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 T455 2007<\/p>\n

A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Healthcare: A Plan for Universal Coverage Serving Patients over Profit<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Arnold S. Relman. PublicAffairs, 2007
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 R45 2007<\/p>\n

A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance. National Academies Press, 2003
\nCall Number: RA413.7 .U53 I584 2003 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Sick Around the World <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Jon Palfreman. PBS Home Video, 2008
\nCall Number: RA394 .S553 2008<\/p>\n

Sicko <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Michael Moore. Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 S495 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Solving the Health Care Problem: How Other Nations Succeeded and Why the United States Has Not<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Pamela Behan. SUNY Press, 2006
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 B44 2006 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

The Trust Crisis in Healthcare: Causes, Consequences, and Cures<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by David A. Shore. Oxford University Press, 2007
\nCall Number: RA445 .T78 2007<\/p>\n

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\n<\/em>California Newsreel, 2008
\nCall Number: RA448.4 .U56 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Beatrix Hoffman. University of North Carolina Press, 2001
\nCall Number: HG9396 .H638 2001 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Who Should Pay for Medicare?<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Daniel Shaviro. University of Chicago Press, 2004
\nCall Number: RA412.3 .S53 2004<\/p>\n

Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in Overtreated America<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Nortin M. Hadler. University of North Carolina Press, 2008
\nCall Number: RA395 .A3 H332 2008 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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