Back to Reform: Values, Markets, and the Health Care SystemBack to Reform is a persuasive discussion of the moral values that spurred the movement for health care reform and that remain insistent today. The book is also a critique of exclusive reliance on marketplace reforms for improvements in health care. By examining the values at the heart of the need for health care reform, Dougherty displays the incompatibilities between these values and those related to the marketplace. |
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