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050 04 $aRA412$b.C36 1995
100 1 $aCanham-Clyne, John.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95046300
245 14 $aThe rational option for a national health program /$cby John Canham-Clyne, with Steffie Woolhandler, and David Himmelstein.
246 1 $aNational health program
260 $aStony Creek, CT :$bThe Pamphleteer's Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a108 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 93-100)
520 $aThis work presents a detailed description of a national health program which nearly every advanced industrial democracy, except the United States, has established, in one form or another, as an effective means of providing universal health coverage for all citizens. Known as the "single-payer" option, it provides the basis for the health systems in Canada and much of Western Europe.
520 8 $aIn clear concise language, the authors of this work cut through the morass of the health care debate and set forth a rational program which will provide coverage for America's forty million uninsured and guarantee freedom of choice in choosing one's physicians. It is a proposal which the Congressional Budget Office described as the most cost effective of all plans capable of covering every American with a comprehensive range of benefits.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aAs advocates of universal coverage, the authors take aim at the Clinton Administration's flawed and ineffective approach to health care reform. They are critical of the tactical compromises made by an administration which sought to accommodate the opponents of universal coverage by mediating a reform through the private insurance industry.
520 8 $aSingle-payer advocates were implacably opposed to any compromise with those who for the sake of pecuniary gain, had denied Americans, for more than two generations, a national health program. In their view, an effective political strategy had to confront and defeat such interests in order to secure a rational and civilized medical system for all Americans. The Clinton effort is part of history. For those who ask if another road was, and still is possible, this work is an essential text.
520 8 $aThe Rational Option is a book for the future.
650 2 $aNational Health Programs.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009313
650 2 $aNational Health Insurance, United States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009310
650 2 $aState Medicine.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013222
650 2 $aInsurance, Health.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007348
710 2 $aWoolhandler, Stefie.
700 1 $aHimmelstein, David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99060261
852 00 $boff,hsl$hRA412$i.C36 1995