Health care insurance reform in the United States

Almost forty million United States citizens do not have access to health care insurance. Many of these are full-time employees or the dependents of full-time employees. Frankie Palmer Albritton discusses this inefficient and inequitable situation in this book. He points out that many of the participants in the health care market, namely physicians and private insurance companies, do not want to see a change in the current market-based health insurance system. Albritton uses economic analysis to show the necessity for a change in the competitive market and for government intervention. The health care insurance system in the Federal Republic of Germany, given its market-based system of care providers and its success at providing its citizens with quality medical care while containing cost, is used as a basis upon which to propose a model to reform the health care insurance system in the United States.