Hospital City, Health Care Nation : : Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care / / Guian A. McKee.
Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country’s high level of health care spending has...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Abbreviations Used in Text
- Introduction. Crisis in the Hospital City—and the Health Care Nation
- PART I. BUILDING THE HOSPITAL CITY
- 1. The Public Foundations of the Hospital City
- 2. Urban Renewal in the Hospital City
- 3. Medicare, Hospitals, and “the Gold at Fort Knox”
- 4. Johns Hopkins in the Hospital Metropolis
- PART II. LIVING WITH THE HOSPITAL CITY
- 5. The Hospital City and the National Health Insurance Struggle
- 6. Wages, Jobs, and Cost in the Hospital City
- 7. Hospital Cost Control in Maryland
- 8. To Stay or Go, and How to Pay for It
- PART III. COSTS OF THE HOSPITAL CITY
- 9. “The Dream Shall Never Die” . . . but It May Be Compromised
- 10. “A New Emphasis on Market Strategies”
- 11. Markets, Medicaid, and Mergers
- Conclusion. Reform in the Hospital City—and the Health Care Nation
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments