HealthReform

toc =Healthcare Reform= This guide is designed to help you research information about healthcare reform. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!


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Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase

 * Affordable Care Act
 * Universal Health Care
 * Preventive Services
 * Medicare
 * Medicaid
 * Public/Private Health Insurance
 * Pre-Existing Condition Insurance

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Persily, Nathaniel, Gillian E. Metzger and Trevor W. Morrison, eds. //The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court's decision and its implications//. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Print.
 * Call Number: KF228.S42 H43 2013**

Circulating Books
Lynch, Frederick R. //One Nation Under AARP: the Fight Over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future.// Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Print.
 * Call Number: HQ1064.U5 L94 2011**

Gottfried, Dennis. //Too Much Medicine: a Doctor's Prescription for Better and More Affordable Health Care//. St. Paul: Paragon House, 2009. Print.
 * Call Number: RA410.53.G68 2009**

Clifton, Guy. //Flatlined: Rescuscitating American Medicine.// New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. Print.
 * Call Number: RA395 .A3 C618 2009**

Richmond, Julius B.//The Health Care Mess: How We Got into It and What It Will Take to Get Out.// Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. Print.
 * Call Number: RA395 .A3 R53 2005**

Patel, Kant. //The Politics of Public Health in the United States.// Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. Print.
 * Call Number: RA445 .P37 2005**

Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs and Michael R. //Healthcare Reform in America: A Reference Handbook.// Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Print.
 * Call Number: RA395 .A3 K7593 2004**

Wurman, Richard Saul. //Understanding Healthcare.// Newport: TOP, 2004. Print.
 * Call Number: RA427.2 .W97 2004**

Marcus, Leonard J. //Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collabroation.// San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995. Print.
 * Call Number: RA394.9 .M3651995**

=Reference Books=

Kronenfield, Jennie. //Debates on U.S. Healthcare.// Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2012. Print.
 * Call Number: REF RA395.A3 D433 2012**

[|Ebrary]
The library has recently added 20,000 online books from the vendor Ebrary. This is the “community college” collection, of interest to students and faculty at 2-year colleges. All books are simultaneously available to all RCC users.

[|Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes]

[|Healthy Voice, Unhealthy Silence]

[|National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada]

[|Chaos and Organization in Health Care]

[|Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care]

[|The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for all Americans]

[|The Truth About Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America]

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's periodicals section for articles about Healthcare Reform.
 * //Newsweek//
 * //Time//
 * //The Economist//

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases. Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including over 1,100 articles mentioning "healthcare reform", over 200 articles mentioning "affordable care", and over 300 articles mentiontional "public" and "private" "health" Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. This database offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues including over 8,000 articles on healthcare reform//.// This database includes more than 5,000 full-text results on the subject of health care reform from academic journals, magazines, books and newspapers, as well as over 70 multimedia items. Provides full text for nearly 1,860 periodicals covering a variety of subjects including general reference and health. This database offers over 9,000 articles mentioning health care reform.
 * ==[|Academic Search Premier]==
 * ==[|Issues and Controversies]==
 * ==[|Global Issues in Context]==
 * ==[|Academic OneFile]==
 * ==[|MasterFILE Premier]==

=Streaming Videos= Full length and segment videos from Films On Demand.

Films On Demand
[|The Future of Health Care: Meeting of the Minds] (47 minutes) America’s health care system is on the verge of a massive transformation. Will universal access lead to lower quality of care? Will it stifle or support U.S. businesses? And what will American medicine look like for the next generation? This CNBC program addresses those questions and more as it assembles some of the biggest names in policy making and the health care industry. Panelists include Senator Bill Frist, former Senate majority leader (R-TN); John C. Lechleiter, president and CEO of Eli Lilly; Angela F. Braly, president and CEO of Wellpoint, Inc.; Dr. Steven Nissen, chief of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic; and Jennifer M. Granholm, former governor of Michigan (D). A part of the series //Meeting of the Minds: America’s Economic Future//.

[|Redefining Health Care] (47 minutes) Providing comprehensive public access to affordable, quality health care is a mammoth struggle—even for wealthy societies with the political will to do so. This CNBC program looks at technological solutions that could potentially slash medical costs, reduce inefficiencies, and create tailor-made treatments for the individual patient. The program begins by exploring issues in personalized medicine, then moves on to improvements in diagnosis, treatment, health care delivery systems, and the insurance industry. Expert commentary comes from Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of the Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Cardiovascular Medicine; Tim Brown, CEO of the innovation consulting firm IDEO; Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Bernadine Healy, health editor for //U.S. News & World Report//. A part of the series //The Business of Innovation (Season 3).// [|Partisan Politics Sinks Health Care Reform] (7 minutes) Sharp divisions among Congressional Democrats weakened President Clinton's ambitious health care reform plan. Republican opposition and a rival plan introduced by Democrat Jim Cooper defeated Clinton's plan for a national health care system.



[|Aging America and Health Care Reform] (6 minutes) American society may come to value the wisdom of their elders. As Americans live longer, medical expenses increase significantly. Medicare coverage will be severely strained by aging baby boomers.

=Web sites= There are many helpful web sites about abortion. The web sites listed below have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Cornell University] has an informative guide.

This is a federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Whitehouse website explains health care law. This is a link to the full text of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is a nonpartisan policy research organization located in Washington, D.C. HSC designs and conducts studies focused on the U.S. health care system to inform the thinking and decisions of policy makers in government and private industry. For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians.
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Research guide prepared on 11/05/10 by Becky Ferris; updated on 3/15/14 by Joy Singletary.