San Antonio College Library

Americans have the wealthiest health care system in the world, yet the health status of Americans ranks in the lowest quartile among the worldʼs 25 industrialized nations and 45 million Americans are without health insurance. Todayʼs cost, quality, and access problems are inter-related and can be traced to taken-for-granted assumptions and health careʼs outmoded organizing concepts: reductionism and materialism. Greater fragmentation of care, an...

Judy Woodruff discusses Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy, now playing at the reopened Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., which tackles one of the most charged issues in America today: health care.

Examines the American health care system, from its origins to what the author claims is its deterioration, and the role that special interest groups have played in its downfall, and proposes a solution for remedying its numerous problems.

Health Care as a Social Good: Religious Values and the American Democracy argues that as escalating health costs absorb more and more of family income and government budgets, we need to take stock of the full range of health care values to create a different and more affordable community-based health care system. Transformation of that system is a national priority but Americans have failed to find a way to work together that bypasses our differences....

Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health care crisis are now deeply embedded in contemporary politics and popular culture. In Cries of Crisis, Robert B. Hackey analyzes media coverage, political...

Discusses the problems with social security and health care in the United States and proposes a fiscally sound reform plan.

"Daniel Shaviro sees the future of our national healthcare system as hinging on funding. The author of books on the economic issues surrounding Social Security and budget deficits, Shaviro is a skilled guide for anyone seeking to understand the financial aspects of government programs. Who Should Pay for Medicare? offers an accessible overview of how Medicare operates as a fiscal system. Discussions of Medicare reform often focus on the expansion...

Health care premiums in the U.S. are escalating from twelve to twenty percent a year--with no end in sight. The impact of those cost increases on both employers and employees will be huge. Workers will see a direct cut in their take-home pay. Millions will lose health insurance coverage completely. Senior citizens on fixed incomes will be hit particularly hard, as premiums for their Medicare supplement plans and prescription drug costs climb. Frustrated...

"This book's purpose is to galvanize women to push for universal health care in the United States"--

"The United States spends more money on health care by far than any other country and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year." "Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system." "Step by step, George Halvorson outlines a game plan for a truly world-class health care system that will appeal to policy makers...