{"title":"'Mama Might Be Better Off Dead.' The human face of health care.","authors":"L K Abraham","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When we set out to review 'Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America\" (Chicago University Press, 1993), former Chicago journalist Laurie Kaye Abraham's chronicle of one poor, urban family's battle to obtain health care, we discovered two things. First, the author had done a better job in her Introduction of briefly conveying what this rather singular book is all about than we might expect from a traditional review. Second, even in that short synopsis, Laurie Kaye Abraham had succeeded, in graphic terms that statistical and rhetorical abstractions cannot match, in showing why providing health insurance for the poor is not the same as providing health care and why any health reform plan that continues to ignore the needs of the poor will be doomed to failure. For these reasons, and with the publisher's permission, we are reproducing that Introduction here in full.</p>","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 4","pages":"30-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21004757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The personal and the political. Medical attitudes toward disability.","authors":"L Blumberg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"35-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21043777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managed competition. An analysis of consumer concerns. Single-Payer Coalition for Health Security.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This analysis of managed competition was written by the Single-Payer Coalition for Health Security, a broad-based coalition of groups representing for the most part consumers of health care, including American Public Health Association; Church Women United; Citizen Action; Consumers Union; National Association of Social Workers; National Council of Senior Citizens; Neighbor to Neighbor; NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby; Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union; Older Women's League; Physicians for a National Health Program; Public Citizen; United Cerebral Palsy Associations; and United Church of Christ. What follows is a substantial excerpt from their working paper, issued in January 1993.</p>","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 1","pages":"17-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20997074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managed competition. A guide to the thicket.","authors":"R Kotelchuck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 1","pages":"4-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20998479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L Cagan, O Fein, R Galanter, M Kenny, K Kimmerling, H Levy
{"title":"The experience of Health/PAC. Interview by Walter J. Lear.","authors":"L Cagan, O Fein, R Galanter, M Kenny, K Kimmerling, H Levy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"7-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The more things stay the same ... the evolution of the hospital dinosaurs.","authors":"D Rivera","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"23-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21000501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The disability community as litmus test. Toward a unified strategy for surmounting the dilemmas in health care reform.","authors":"B Griss","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 3","pages":"30-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21043172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The health care reform two-step. One forward, two back.","authors":"H J Geiger","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"44-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental health in the Clinton plan. Corporate dictatorship in therapy.","authors":"K Shore","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 3","pages":"28-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Make-up in the morgue. Liberal reform and American health care.","authors":"M P Dumont","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"17-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21000498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}