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Around 45 million people do not have health insurance in the US, and many more are denied access by geography. Patel and Rushefsky (both political science, Missouri State U.) Examine the state of the American health care system not in terms of its available technologies, but in its inability to care for all those eligible. They examine the health status and outcomes, access to Health Care, quality of Health Care, perceptions of the Healthcare System, and possible estimations for health disparities of African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaskan natives, children, women, and the elderly, finding significant inequalities in each case. They also find geography to be a factor, with medical personnel concentrating in specialties and cities to the exclusion of those in rural areas needing basic care. They make recommendations for reconsidering the continuation of inequality in health care. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
