5 Too Much Money: Uncontrolled Costs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. 1 The Political Economy of Health Care 1
5. 2 The Health Policy System 31
6. 3 Medicare: National Health Insurance for Older Americans 51
7. 4 Medicaid: The Accidental Program 81
8. 5 Too Much Money: Uncontrolled Costs 109
9. 6 Long-term Care: The Sleeping Giant 137
10. 7 Health Care Reform: The Dream Deferred 165
11. 8 How Other Countries Do It 203
12. 9 What Can We Expect by 2021? 215
13. Bibliography 227
14. Index 235
15. About the Book 239