Debates on U.S. Health Care

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Wendy E. Parmet, Mark A. Zezza, Jennie Kronenfeld, Wendy E. Parmet, Mark A. Zezza

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781412996020
• eBook ISBN: 9781483306063
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Política social

This issues-based reference work (available in both print and electronic formats) shines a spotlight on health care policy and practice in the United States. Impassioned debates about the best solutions to health care in America have perennially erupted among politicians, scholars of public policy, medical professionals, and the general public. The fight over the Health Care Reform Act of 2010 brought to light a multitude of fears, challenges, obstacles, and passions that often had the effect of complicating rather than clarifying the debate. The discourse has never been more heated. The complex issues that animate the health care debate have forced the American public to grapple with the exigencies of the present system with regard to economic, fiscal, and monetary policy, especially as they relate to philosophical, often ideologically driven approaches to the problem. Americans have also had to examine their ideas about the relationship of the individual to and interaction with the state and the varied social and cultural beliefs about what an American solution to the problem of health care looks like. In light of the need to keep students, researchers, and other interested readers informed and up-to-date on the issues surrounding health care in the U.S., this volume uses introductory essays followed by point/counterpoint articles to explore prominent and perennially important debates, providing readers with views on multiple sides of this complex issue.

Features & Benefits:

• The volume is divided into three sections, each with its own Section Editor: Quality of Care Debates (Dr. Jennie Kronenfeld), Economic & Fiscal Debates (Dr. Mark Zezza), and Political, Philosophical, & Legal Debates (Prof. Wendy Parmet).
• Sections open with a Preface by the Section Editor to introduce the broad theme at hand and provide historical underpinnings.
• Each Section holds 12 chapters addressing varied aspects of the broad theme of the section.
• Chapters open with an objective, lead-in piece (or "headnote") followed by a point article and a counterpoint article.
• All pieces (headnote, point article, counterpoint article) are signed.
• For each chapter, students are referred to further readings, data sources, and other resources as a jumping-off spot for further research and more in-depth exploration.
• Finally, the volume concludes with a comprehensive index, and the electronic version of the book includes search-and-browse features, as well as the ability to link to further readings cited within chapters should they be available to the library in electronic format.

INDEX

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Aaron, Henry, 285

AARP Public Policy Institute, 451

Aarts, J., 503

Abortion and reproductive health services

abortion, taxpayer support and, 175, 186–187

ACA, cost sharing for contraceptive services and, 175

ACA, subsidies for abortion services and, 3–4, 143, 176, 186

Church Amendments and, 187

conscientious objections to taxpayer funding of, 3–4, 175,
176, 181–183

constitutional limits to abortion and contraception and, 3–4, 176, 183–184

contraceptive services and, 3–4, 175, 183–184, 187

definitions regarding, 177

Eisenstadt v. Baird and, 179, 183

employer-sponsored insurance and, 175

Fourth World Conference on Women and, 178

Griswold v. Connecticut and, 179, 183

Harris v. McRae and, 175, 179, 183

Hyde Amendment and, 175, 176, 183, 186

individual conscience in U.S. law and, 181–182, 185–186

international human rights law and, 176, 177, 184–185

international reproductive health perspective and, 178, 182

Maher v. Roe and, 179, 183, 184

male reproductive health and, 181

Medicaid funding and, 175, 177, 180–181, 187

Nelson Amendment and, 176

No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act and, 176

Planned Parenthood and, 179, 181, 183, 186, 187

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey and, 179

point/counterpoint summaries of, 175–176, 177, 182, 183, 187

positive vs. negative rights and, 176, 184–185

poverty factor in, 19

pregnancy related care and, 177, 178–180

privacy rights and, 179

religious liberty vs. gender equality issues and, 3–4

reproductive health care importance and, 175, 177

reproductive medicine issues and, 144

rights against government interference issue and, 179

Roe v. Wade and, 175, 179, 183, 186

sexually transmitted infectio...

Table of contents

• Cover page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Preface
• PHILOSOPHICAL, POLITICAL, AND LEGAL DEBATES
• ECONOMIC AND FISCAL DEBATES
• QUALITY DEBATES
• Index