...n PART III Information, Knowledge, and Medical Markets DEBORAH HAAS-WILSON n Arrow and the Information Market Failure in Health Care: The Changing Content and Sources of Health Care Information Kenneth Arrow’s...

... EPILOGUE U.S. Immigrants The Next Fight over Race, Adoption, and Foster Care? On August 19, 2009, a friend of mine, let’s say her name is Mercedes, was pulled over in a routine traffic stop (brown people with older...

... Christine K. Cassel The Meaning of Health Care in Old Age Editor's Introduction. The meaning of aging, its value and place in human existence, would seem to be the pivotal concept de• termining the quality of health care older people receive. But what is that meaning...

... ChaPter​one –​ crafting a dEMocratic subjEct? The​Foucauldian​Ethics​of​Self-​Care Care​for​others​should​not​be​put​before​the​care​of​oneself.​The​care​ of​the​self​is​ethically​prior​in​that​the...

... ChaPter​three –​ thE dEMocratic Ethics of carE for Worldly things Res​means​what​concerns​men. —martin​heiDegger Each​object​gathers​around​itself​a​different​assembly​of​relevant​parties. —Bruno​Latour To​question...

... ePiLogue –​ sElf/othEr/World Forging​Connections​and​Fostering​Democratic​Care The​ preceding​ pages​ have​ conceptualized​ and​ advocated​ a​ democratic​ethos​focused​on​collaborative​care​for...

... Part II cinematic women demanding judgment From Liberal Attitudes to Radical Feminist Jurisprudence and the Ethics of Care Adam’s Rib 5...

...- cal Care has become a seminal essay in the field of health economics. Its funda- mental contribution is a detailed and thoughtful comparison of the deviations between the workings of markets for medical care and the competitive ideal. As Arrow demonstrates, a variety of factors prevents the medical...

... PETER J. HAMMER DEBORAH HAAS-WILSON WILLIAM M. SAGE n Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care: ‘‘Why Arrow? Why Now...

... 2 Arrow Reinhardt, Chernew (general equilibrium) Uncertainty and Medical Care 3 4 Arrow Hammer (institutions as economic data) Uncertainty and Medical Care 5 Chernew...

... Care has become a seminal essay in the field of health economics. Its funda- mental contribution is a detailed and thoughtful comparison of the deviations between the workings of markets for medical care and the competitive ideal. As Arrow demonstrates, a variety of factors prevents the medical care...

... FRANK A. SLOAN n Arrow’sConceptoftheHealthCareConsumer: A Forty-Year Retrospective ARROW’S CONCEPT OF THE CONSUMER OF MEDICAL CARE The consumer of medical care is in a unique situation for several reasons. First, in general...

... PART I The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere? Jonathan Oberlander The health care system in the United States remains a ‘‘paradox of excess and deprivation The United States spends more on...

... PART II Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing Bedside Manna Deborah Stone For more than 150 years, American medicine aspired to an ethical ideal of the separation of money from medical care. Medical practice was a money-making proposition, to be sure, and doctors...

... PART I The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere? Jonathan Oberlander The health care system in the United States remains a ‘‘paradox of excess and deprivation The United States spends more on...

...Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care Uwe E. Reinhardt Throughout the past three decades, Americans have been locked in a tenacious ideological debate whose essence can be distilled into the fol- lowing pointed question: As a matter of national...

...From Bismarck to Medicare—A Brief History of Medical Care Payment in America Donald L. Madison At the outset, a word of explanation. This discursive essay borrows its title from a more focused one, written over 60 years ago by the distin- guished historian Henry Sigerist, who titled his...

...The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart Drew E. Altman and Larry Levitt The problem of rising health care costs is reemerging as a national issue. Unfortunately, costs are rising as the economy sputters, the federal sur- plus dwindles, and the nation is focused...

...The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation Henry J. Aaron Observers have noted that after a hiatus in the mid- and late 1990s, health care costs are once again rising fast. Like Louis Renault, the benignly corrupt police chief in Casablanca, who was...

...Must Good HMOs Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care Robert Kuttner Prepaid group health care began in the 1940s as an insurgent, even radical form of medicine. At the time, few Americans had health insurance. The early programs would later be called group or staff...