The Health Care Hand-book: A Clear and Concise Guide to the United States Health Care System

摘要

The Health Care Handbook has already garnered dozens of strongly favorable reviews, including a glowing one from the New York Times . So why another review? For starters, it may bring this book to the attention of more readers, which would be a very good thing. It is also an opportunity to provide information about additional content and supplemental resources that are available electronically.According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, a handbook is “a small book that gives useful information about a particular subject” [ 1 ]. If that were the only benchmark, this book absolutely succeeds. Fortunately, it also succeeds admirably at achieving the authors’ stated goal: “to provide a baseline level of facts and analysis so that readers may go forth with the ability not only to understand and evaluate what they read but also to form their own opinions.”