Synopses & Reviews
How do you go about choosing between health insurance plans...selecting a hospital...choosing a doctor? These are just some of the difficult decisions certain to have a profound impact on your physical, emotional, and financial well-being for years to come. This comprehensive guide shows you how to make knowledgeable choices--how to get everything you require from our nation's $600 billion a year health care system. Health Care Services in the 1990s provides life-or-death information about ambulatory care, long-term care, and mental health services. Learn about the changing roles of physicians and dentists...insurance vs. pre-paid plans...how hospitals and physicians get paid...and alternatives to traditional medicine. Three appendices list current addresses, contact information, and toll-free telephone numbers of agencies capable of answering questions about specific needs and situations.
Synopsis
This practical consumer's guide is designed to help the consumer face and manage the tremendous challenges of the American health care system. This guide offers useful information and reference material that is essential to becoming a better consumer. Numerous opportunities exist for an individual consumer to gain health advancements from the nation's excellent and rich health care resources, and this guide can help the reader obtain these advantages by demonstrating the best approach to the system. The reader will learn how to protect oneself when at risk in the midst of health care options, alternatives and choices.
Synopsis
This practical consumer's guide is designed to help the consumer face and manage the tremendous challenges of the American health care system. This guide offers useful information and reference material that is essential to becoming a better consumer. Numerous opportunities exist for an individual consumer to gain health advancements from the nation's excellent and rich health care resources, and this guide can help the reader obtain these advantages by demonstrating the best approach to the system. The reader will learn how to protect oneself when at risk in the midst of health care options, alternatives and choices.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-328) and index.
About the Author
STEPHEN J. WILLIAMS is professor and head of the division of health services administration, and head of the graduate program in health services administration at the Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California. Dr. Williams is the author of numerous books and articles on health care.SANDRA J. GUERRA is the Clayton Foundation Administrator at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California.