The Chronically ill : pain, profit, and managed care / Hedrick Smith Productions.

Currently, three-quarters of all U.S. healthcare dollars are spent on 100 million people with chronic illnesses and conditions. Will a cost-conscious healthcare system, increasingly driven by the market and oriented toward acute care, give them the proper care? This program examines how the chronica...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Critical condition.
Corporate Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase
Hedrick Smith Productions
Other Authors: Smith, Hedrick
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2005], ©2000.
Series:Films on Demand.
Critical condition.
Subjects:
Smith, Hedrick.
Health planning.
Political planning.
Public health.
Public policy (Law) > United States.
Social medicine.
Social policy.
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (48 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
Variant Title:
Pain, profit, and managed care
Format: Electronic Video
Contents:
  • Care for the Chronically Ill (4:45)
  • Denial of Service (5:06)
  • Paying for Chronic Illness (3:00)
  • Disease Management (4:27)
  • The Chips Case (6:54)
  • Stroke Rehabilitation (2:39)
  • Acute Care Versus Nursing Home Care (5:54)
  • Choosing a Health Care Plan (5:17)
  • Medicare HMOs (6:39)