Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Morality, politics, and health policy	13
2	Cross pressures : the contemporary politics of health reform	26
3	The employer-based health insurance system : mistake or cornerstone?	37
4	Entrepreneurial challenges to integrated health care	53
5	Fundamental sources of health inequalities	71
6	A public health approach to firearms policy	85
7	Tobacco policy in the United States : lessons for the obesity epidemic	99
8	Patterns and causes of disparities in health	115
9	Addressing racial inequality in health care	135
10	Still demanding medical excellence	151
11	Preventing medical errors	162
12	Improving quality through nursing	177
13	Improving medicare for beneficiaries with disabilities	189
14	Specialization, specialty organizations, and the quality of health care	206
15	Integrating people with mental illness into health insurance and social services	223
16	Accountability for reasonable limits to care : can we meet the challenges?	238