Publisher's Synopsis
The US health-care system has come under intense criticism as a result of steeply rising expenditure, an increase in the number of uninsured people, and a range of other challenges, including increasingly severe pressures on government and private employers - the principal payers for health care. Offering an analysis of these and other dysfunctional developments, this book assesses the existing problems and the transformations now under way that are designed to bring drastic change to how US health care is financed, and to improve the services it provides.
