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Awarded by Book Authority one of the best Public Health books of all time, Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fourth Edition explores the essential policy and legal issues impacting and flowing out of the healthcare and public health systems and the way health policies and laws are formulated. Concise and straightforward, this textbook is an introduction to the seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, with a particular focus on national health reform under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Health Policy --- Social Determinants of Health --- Insurance, Health --- Health Care Reform --- legislation & jurisprudence --- United States

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Why would authoritarian leaders expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? How do authoritarian leaders design and enforce social welfare expansion in a decentralized multilevel governance setting? This book identifies the trade-off authoritarian leaders face in social welfare provision: effectively balancing coverage and benefits between elites and masses in order to maximize the regime's survival prospects. Using government documents, field interviews, survey data, and government statistics about Chinese social health insurance, this book reveals that Chinese authoritarian leaders attempt to manage the distributive trade-off by a "stratified expansion" strategy, establishing an expansive yet stratified social health insurance system to perpetuate a particularly privileged program for the elites while building an essentially modest health provision for the masses.

Welfare state --- Medical policy --- Health insurance --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Social stratification --- Authoritarianism --- China --- Social policy. --- Political science --- Authority --- Stratification, Social --- Equality --- Social structure --- Social classes --- Health plans, Prepaid --- Insurance, Health --- Medical care, Prepaid --- Medical insurance --- Prepaid health plans --- Prepaid medical care --- Sickness insurance --- Insurance --- Ambulance service --- Health care reform --- Home care services --- Hospitals --- Medically uninsured persons --- Surgical clinics --- State, Welfare --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Prospective payment --- Emergency services --- Outpatient services --- Rehabilitation services