The Health Care Mess - How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get Out

From: Journal of Public Health Policy | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Julius Richmond, Rashi Fein. The Health Care Mess - How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get Out. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 294pp. $26-95

Editors' Note: We have recently reviewed two books that emphasize the increasing tendency to organize medical care on a commercial model - Ally son Pollack's NHS:plc and now this book by Richmond and Fein. We are mindful of our mission as a global public health journal, nonetheless we believe these two books on medical care in industrial countries, suggest just how difficult it is likely to be to preserve or achieve medical ...

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