Persons With Disabilities - Issues in Health Care Financing and Service Delivery

Informationen zum Autor " Joshua M. Wiener is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at Brookings. He is the coauthor of Sharing the Burden: Strategies for Public and Private Long-Term Care Insurance (Brookings, 1994) and Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay? (Brookings, 1988). Steven Clauser is director of the Office of Research at the Health Care Financing Administration. David L. Kennell is a vice president of Lewin-VHI, Inc." Klappentext "A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This volume offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem, including the regulation of private long-term care insurance, catastrophic out-of-pocket costs, and the use of long-term care and acute care services by the chronically disabled elderly.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Lisa Alecxih, David Kennell, and John Corea, Lewin-VHI; Brian Burwell and William Crown, SysteMetrics; Terry Coughlin, Korbin Liu, and Sharon Long, Urban Institute; Judith Kasper, Johns Hopkins University; Kenneth Manton and P.J. Eric Stallard, Duke University; Jennifer Schore, Mathematica Policy Research; Catherine Sullivan, Brookings; and Bruce Vladeck, Health Care Financing Administration.Dialogues on Public Policy "

Product details

• Authors: Henry Ed. Weiner, Joshua M. Wiener, Joshua M. (EDT)/ Clauser Wiener
• Assisted by: Steven B. Clauser (Editor), Clauser Steven B. (Editor), David L. Kennell (Editor), Kennell David L. (Editor), Joshua M. Weiner (Editor), Joshua Wiener (Editor), Joshua M. Wiener (Editor), Wiener Joshua (Editor)
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1995
• EAN: 9780815793793
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-9379-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Brookings Dialogues on Public; Brookings Dialogues on Public
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Industry & industrial studies, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Industry and industrial studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Healthcare