The Social Medicine Reader, Volume 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine Book

	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?	5
	Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care	25
	From Bismarck to Medicare-A Brief History of Medical Care Payment in America	31
	The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart	67
	The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation	70
	The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost Containment as Told in One Chart	73
	Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs	76
Part II	Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing
	Bedside Manna	95
	Must Good HMOS Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care	107
	Defending My Life	119
	Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care	128
	The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation	150
	Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Canada	158
	Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization	167
Part III	International Perspectives and Emerging Issues
	Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma	179
	Health Care in Four Nations	199
	Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda	230
	What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States?	240
	Luxury Primary Care-Market Innovation or Threat to Access?	246
	Correspondence: Response to "Luxury Primary Care"	255
	Limiting Health Care for the Old	260
	Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equity and Age-Based Rationing	267
	Index to Authors	285
	About the Editors	287