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| Pt. 1 | A Snapshot of Health Care Delivery Today | |
| 1 | Perspectives and Perceptions | 3 |
| 2 | The Changing Profile of U.S. Health Care | 13 |
| The System Today | 13 | |
| Box: HMOs, PPOs, EPOs, and Hybrids | 18 | |
| Reversing Incentives: Don't Do More, Do Less | 23 | |
| How the System Developed: A Hospital-Oriented Sketch | 27 | |
| Cross Subsidies and the Loss of Community | 34 | |
| Pt. 2 | Understanding the Problems | |
| 3 | What Are the Problems? | 39 |
| Access: Who Has It? Who Does Not? | 39 | |
| Box: Lack of Care from Coast to Coast | 44 | |
| Health Care Leads the Inflation Index | 50 | |
| We, the People, Expect Better Health Care | 54 | |
| 4 | What's Causing the Problems? | 57 |
| How a Market System Works: No Insurance, No Access | 57 | |
| Why Do Costs Rise So Much, So Fast? | 64 | |
| High-Tech: Its Use, Abuse, and Costs | 67 | |
| Payment Perversities and Moral Hazard | 72 | |
| The Changing Picture of Incentives | 77 | |
| Where Are the Levers of Budgetary Control? | 78 | |
| Pt. 3 | What Are the Options? | |
| 5 | How Do We Get Coverage for Everyone? | 83 |
| The Red Herring of Socialized Medicine | 83 | |
| What Is the Range of Options? | 85 | |
| The NHS Concept and Its British Version | 86 | |
| NHI: The Canadian Case | 88 | |
| NHI: A Physician-sponsored Plan | 91 | |
| UHI: The German Version | 94 | |
| UHI: The Play-or-Pay Approach | 97 | |
| The Mandate Approach | 103 | |
| Making Private Insurance More Accessible | 106 | |
| The Privatized, Individualized Approach | 108 | |
| 6 | Cutting Costs: Piecemeal Approaches | 111 |
| The Economic Model - and Its Dangers | 114 | |
| The Medical Model: Making the Practice of Medicine More (Cost) Effective | 126 | |
| 7 | Cutting Costs: Overall Approaches | 139 |
| Patients and Doctors | 139 | |
| Box: Improving the Doctor-Patient Relationship | 141 | |
| Capacity Constraints and Health Care Rationing | 147 | |
| Pt. 4 | Components of an Achievable Better System | |
| 8 | Elements for an Optimal Health Care Plan | 163 |
| The Givens of Reform | 163 | |
| Box: How Much Change is the Public Ready For? | 164 | |
| Elements of an Optimal Plan | 167 | |
| Box: Preserving Pluralism | 173 | |
| Encourage Professionalism, Discourage Micromanagement | 174 | |
| Plan A, Plan B | 175 | |
| Time for Action, Time for Leadership | 176 | |
| Notes | 177 | |
| List of Acronyms and Glossary | 181 | |
| Suggested Readings | 187 | |
| About the Book and Author | 189 | |
| Index | 191 |
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Jonathan Cruse
reviewed Curing the crisis on April 25, 2008
Curing the crisis
I recently found out about Essex Hemphill while I was frontlisting up-coming titles. In case you also didn't know, he was a black, gay poet and activist in the 80s and 90s who died from AIDS in the mid 90s. I found out that one of his most well known works was Ceremonies and of course, it's out of print. But my library has it WHAT UP.
It definitely took me forever to read this book because I have book ADD and because of all the essays dispersed through out the collection. I enjoyed most of the essays, but some were harder to slog through. But really, it made it a more interesting way to read the poetry because I'd read all these poems about crazy powerful shit like being black and gay in the U.S. in the 80s and 90s, plus other heavy subjects such as the black nurse who worked with the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (go ahead, look it up) and a woman who chopped up her son to save him from demons. Hemphill's poetry is full of the raw imagery of sexual acts and violence, yet he always seems to add beauty or a sense of urgency. I don't know what I'm saying. All I'm saying is there were so many poems that I just had to look up from my book and nod and think, "well, fuck." Ya know?
Anyway. So many intersections in Hemphill's work — race & sexuality, obviously, but also gender and class. Not to mention the violence against and within the black community and the violence against and AIDS epidemic within the queer community. He really hits on so many important issues.
I really wish this book weren't out of print because it should be taught in queer studies classes and a new biography of Hemphill (Hold Tight Gently) just came out a few years ago. So much of his work is still relevant and fucking important today. We're still dealing with most of these issues 20 years later.
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