America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care
Stephen M. Davidson is professor and former director of the graduate program in health care management at Questrom School of Business at Boston University. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Davidson is the author of seven books including Still Broken: Understanding the US Health Care System (2010) and A New Era in US Health Care: Critical Next Steps under the Affordable Care Act (2013). His research has focused on utilization of services, the effects of public policy decisions on the cost and use of services, quality of care, Medicaid policy, physician retention in community health centers, information technology in health care, and the management of health care organizations. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago.
Stephen M. Davidson; America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care. J Health Polit Policy Law 1 April 2016; 41 (2): 301–310. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3476341
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