Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery

by Harry A. Sultz, Kristina M. Young

Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery, Second E dition reflects recent major legislative changes that have occurred in Medicare, Medicaid and public health. The growing concern about menta l health services will be covered by taking a close look at emerging b ehavioral health managed care organizations. The new edition will also reflect the increased penetration of managed care across the country and its effect on not only the health care industry, but also on consu mers. Current benchmarks in all areas of health care will be thoroughl y updated.

Genres: Health Care, Medicine

439 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1997

Reviews

[Daniel Mala · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fitting for the class, current and relative. Not exactly and absorbing read, but reads well enough to not put me to sleep. It’s nice that it included the many changes made by the ACA, but I imagine it may be dated in short order if heath policy tilts one way or the other.

[Jason Carling · Rating 5 out of 5]

All in one stop guide to American healthcare

This is a wonderful text. I read this as a Canadian looking from the outside in. The text does a wonderful job on enlightening the reader on almost all aspects of the US health system. The text presupposes little about the reader and the authors do a great job providing relevant background - for example on how the insurance system in the US came to be. I found coverage of the ACA to be sufficient in breadth and depth. Closing the book, I am now leaps and bounds more informed on the US health system than I was before. Given the incredible health crisis that we face, and the serious lack of knowledge in the public regarding the magnitude, I would say that this book should be required reading for everyone, but that is wishful thinking. I would however, recommend the book to any student of health systems, regardless of what country they are from.

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent - everyone should read this and be informed about our healthcare system. It puts the Affordable Care Act into perspective and breaks it down in terms of what it means for our country. The ACA is not perfect by any means but is a step in the right direction. If everyone had the knowledge this book provides - boy would I love to see that America.

[Katherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good foundation about Health Care in the US largely written from a population/public health perspective.

[Mandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this textbook for school. It was easy to understand. They did a good job simplifying a complicated healthcare system!

[Carrie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Glad to be done with this class. Learned a lot but happy to sell this book back to Amazon. Semester is finally over :)

[Nikhil P. Freeman · Rating 2 out of 5]

A tedious journey.

[Rue S.]

Time to list the new edition, Goodreads!