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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Redesigning innovative healthcare operation and the role of knowledge management	Murako Saito	"This book offers a compilation of chapters on how knowledge impacts the layout and design of the medical industry"--Provided by publisher.	OL13766543W
Why our health matters	Andrew Weil	A landmark book that shows us exactly how we have let health and medicine become a crisis in our society and what we can all do to resolve it Healthcare is no longer just a public issue; for millions…	OL145312W
Why Obamacare is wrong for America	Grace-Marie Turner	"The first in-depth examination of the impact of Obamacare on American individuals, families, and businesses"--	OL15980091W
Remedy and reaction	Paul Starr	"In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of le…	OL15991425W
Health literacy implications for health care reform	Theresa M. Wizemann	Health literacy is the degree to which one can understand and make decisions based on health information. Nearly 90 million adults in the United States have limited health literacy. While poor health…	OL16285631W
Health care reform	Jonathan Gruber	"Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works is a deeply informed, opinionated, immediately accessible explanation of why health care reform is essential, why the legislation Con…	OL16461540W
Health care reform and disparities	Toni P. Miles	"This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud create inequity the root cause of our dysfunctional he…	OL16558302W
Facilitating state health exchange communication through the use of health literate practices	Maria Elizabeth Hewitt	"Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 will result in significant changes to the U.S. health care system. Among its many provisions, the ACA will extend access to health care covera…	OL16666871W
citizen patient	Nortin M. Hadler	"Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt tha…	OL16805922W
Using taxes to reform health insurance	Henry J. Aaron,Leonard Burman	"Examines the role that taxes currently play, the likely effects of recently introduced health savings accounts, the challenges of administering major subsidies for health insurance through the tax s…	OL17896310W
Where does it hurt?	Jonathan Bush	"Jonathan Bush of Athenahealth leads readers through the underbelly of American health care, which has missed the customer service revolution of the past two decades, while reflecting on his own jour…	OL19667360W
Boomerang	Theda Skocpol	Health reform, a popular issue that Bill Clinton and the Democrats skillfully featured in the 1992 campaign, became the spearpoint of the most concerted attack on government in recent American histor…	OL2079360W
Challenging inequities in health	Timothy Evans	This text provides a unique view of global inequities in health status and health sytems. Emphasizing socioeconomic conditions, it combines chapters on conceptual and measurement issues with case stu…	OL20798354W
It's about Patient Care	C. Martin Harris,Gene Lazuta	1 online resource	OL21132051W
Santé	Claude Castonguay	Texte d'opinion sur les services de santé au Québec et leur financement.	OL21444817W
The reorganized National Health Service	Ruth Levitt,Andrew Wall,John Appleby	The National Health Service in Britain is constantly adapting to medical, social and political change. This classic text has kept pace with the extensive reforms, providing an objective, comprehensiv…	OL22071555W
Fresh medicine	Phil Bredesen	Bredesen delivers a concise, intelligent analysis of what the reform is, how it is flawed, and why we have to fix it.	OL22550838W
NHS SOS	Raymond Tallis,Jacky Davis	An explosive polemic revealing how the NHS was butchered by reform - and how we can revive this national treasure while we still have the chance.	OL24288654W
Doctors and Reformers	Jonathan Engel	"Jonathan Engel traces the policy debates over healthcare delivery, and the ways of paying for it, that were conducted during the second quarter of the twentieth century in the United States. Examin…	OL5829256W
Customer-Directed Healthcare Reform with Episode Pricing	Douglas Emery	xv, 208 p. : 24 cm	OL9411779W