The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition

Preface to the Second Edition vii
Introduction 1
Part I: The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs
The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere? / Jonathan Oberlander 5
Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care / Uwe E. Reinhardt 25
From Bismarck to Medicare - A Brief History of Medical Care Payment In America / Donald L. Madison 31
The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart / Drew E. Altman and Larry Levitt 67
The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation / Henry J. Aaron 70
The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost: Containment as Told In One Chart / Thomas Bodenheimer 73
Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs / Lawrence d. Brown and Michael S. Sparer 76
Part II: Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing
Bedside Manna / Deborah Stone 95
Must Good HMOs Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care / Robert Kuttner 107
Defending My Life / Geov Parrish 119
Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care / Wendy K. Mariner 128
The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation / George J. Annas 150
Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Canada / Jafna L. Cox 158
Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization / Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein 167
Part III: International Perspectives and Emerging Issues
Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma / Uwe E. Reinhardt 179
Health Care in Four Nations / Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach 199
Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda / Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook 230
What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States? / Victor R. Fuchs 240
Luxury Primary Care - Market Innovation or Threat to Access? / Troyen A. Brennan 246
Correspondence: Response to "Luxury Primary Care" 255
Limiting Health Care for the Old / Daniel Callahan 260