Health Care System in the United States

• Authors: Rutkowski W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the organization of health care system in the United States, both the public sector - Medicare and Medicaid - and private sector, especially managed care. The attention was paid both to the positive features of American model of health care, such as advanced medical technology and elasticity, and to the negative features, such as the lack of universal access to health services, high costs and complexity.

Keywords

EN

HEALTH CARE MARKET; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (USA); MANAGED CARE

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Labor and Social Studies, Warsaw
• Journal: Polityka Społeczna
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 7(400)
• Pages: 17-21
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Rutkowski W.

• W. Rutkowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03857687