America's Health Care Revolution: Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Pays?
by Joseph A. Califano, Jr. (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394542916
- ISBN 13
- 9780394542911
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House, 1986 Random House, New York. 1986. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light dust soiling to textblock top. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($17.95); light bumping to head, tail, and along the top edge; small closed tear on front lower tip. Blue paper over boards with gray cloth overlay on the spine; bright red lettering on the spine and front board. 241 pp 8vo. The author was the former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and an architect of Medicare and Medicaid under President Carter. In this book he looks to the private sector to lead us from a sick card system to a more efficient health care system with specific recommendations to everyone in the health care system to get the job done. His ideas would curtail unnecessary treatment, curb excessive fees and profits, reshape how doctors are trained and paid, cut the number of hospital beds, and change America's health habits. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015045
- Title
- America's Health Care Revolution: Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Pays?
- Author
- Joseph A. Califano, Jr. (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394542916
- ISBN 13
- 9780394542911
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- health care system, health care costs, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., American health habits, insurance costs, medical costs, rationed health care, death control,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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