TY - BOOK AU - Dougherty,Charles J. TI - American health care: realities, rights, and reforms SN - 1429400994 AV - RA395.A3 D675 1988eb U1 - 362.1/0973 19 PY - 1988/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Medical care KW - United States KW - Utilization KW - Medical policy KW - Public health administration KW - Health Policy KW - Public Health Administration KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - Politique sanitaire KW - Soins médicaux KW - Utilisation KW - États-Unis KW - Santé publique KW - Administration KW - Prestation de soins KW - HEALTH & FITNESS KW - Health Care Issues KW - bisacsh KW - MEDICAL KW - Public Health KW - Diseases KW - General KW - Health Care Delivery KW - fast KW - Gesundheitsfürsorge KW - gnd KW - Gesundheitswesen KW - USA KW - swd KW - Health services KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I: Realities -- 1. Some American Health Care Realities: Access to Needed Care; Quality of Care; Rising Costs -- Part II: Rights -- 2. A Right to Health Care: The Concept of a Right; For and Against a Right to Health Care -- 3. Utilitarianism: Optimal Consequences; Prudent Insurance -- 4. Egalitarianism: Equal Intrinsic Value; Substantive Equality -- 5. Libertarianism: Liberty and Ownership; Compensatory Rights -- 6. Contractarianism: The Social Contract; Liberty, Opportunity, and Wealth -- 7. Plural Foundations: Proof and Persons; Four Health Care Rights; Rights, Clarity, and Ideals -- Part III: Reforms -- 8. Market Reforms: Pure Competition; A Hobbled Market -- 9. DRGs, HMOs, and Vouchers: Price Controls; Prepaid Group Practice; Cash and Voucher Plans -- 10. National Health Care Plans: Medicare and Medicaid; National Health Insurance; A National Health Care Service; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 N2 - This book provides a moral evaluation of American health care. It is in three main parts: a review and analysis of conditions bearing on access to quality health care, a philosophical analysis and defence of the concept of a moral right to health care, and a discussion of various policy alternatives for reform of the US system for delivering health care. The first chapter demonstrates that many Americans, especially among blacks, persons from low income families, and those with less education, are underserved by the present system. Persons in these groups have significantly worse health characteristics than other Americans. Do these persons have a right to health care? If so, to what kinds of care and how much? In part two, four contemporary theories of justice and of peoples' rights - utilitarianism, egalitarianism, libertarianism, and contractarianism - are examined and their implications for a right to health care described. Each theory is then discussed in terms of a right to health care that encompasses non-interference with one's health, primary care, curative care under some circumstances, and the freedom to buy additional health care not guaranteed by right.; What is to be done? This is the central question of the third part, which examines and evaluates alternative directions for reform of the American health care system UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=168993 ER -