Emeritus Political Science Professors, Kant Patel and Mark Rushefsky, have published the 5th edition of their seminal text, Healthcare Politics and Policy in America.
Yale University’s, Ted Marmor, said “Healthcare Politics and Policy in America is the most reliable guide to America’s form of healthcare policy and politics available. Patel and Rushefsky turn a complex, hard to understand set of arrangements into a subject that is quite understandable, in a book that is clearly written and up to date. The new edition not only brings the story of American healthcare politics and policy up to date but expands the scope of this comprehensive work. One of the three new chapters analyses the origins, character, and continued controversy over President Obama’s Affordable Care. Other revised chapters extend the discussion of health care inflation to a broad treatment both of bio-medical innovation and the social determinants of population health. What Patel and Rushefsky have accomplished is a remarkable synthesis of American political arrangements as they bear on the world of both medical care and public health.”