Beschreibung:
Emerging as a formidable opposition party in Taiwan in 1986, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is now a major challenger on the island's political scene. This text presents a dialogue between DPP's policy-makers and the leading critics from the international scholarly community.
An updated edition of this text which combines an historical overview of U.S. health policy and the origins of the Medicare and Medicaid programmes with analysis of current trends and reform efforts, including medical liability and tort reform and the backlash against managed care.