Medical gridlock and health reform / Eli Ginzberg.

Boulder : Westview Press, [1994], ©1994.

xii, 204 pages ; 24 cm.

Everything I know about health care I learned in the pentagon in World War II -- The impact of World War II on U.S. medicine -- The Veterans Administration in a vise -- Health reform: lessons from employment, housing, and education -- The limits of health reform revisited -- Health policy: the old era passes -- Health personnel: the challenges ahead -- Philanthropy and nonprofit organizations -- High-tech medicine -- Competition and health reform -- Hospitals, doctors, and global budgets -- Financing health care for the poor: second-best solutions -- Restructuring health services in New York City -- Access to health care for Hispanics -- Beyond universal health insurance -- Health care reform: why so slow -- Interest groups and health reform -- Physicians and health care reform -- Where are we and where should we be going -- President Clinton's design for reform.

Includes bibliographical references and index