An Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System (6 Revised edition)

This bestselling text is a concise and balanced classic presenting the domestic health care system.

It explains the five major components of the U.S. health care system: health care institutions (hospitals and nursing homes); health care personnel (physicians, nurses, and others); financing mechanisms; research and educational institutions that produce biomedical knowledge and health personnel; and, firms producing "health commodities" (such as pharmaceutical drugs and hospital equipment).