User talk:Qexigator/Books/Health care reform in the United States and other articles, linked directly or indirectly

Title, content and arrangement of the book

The content of the articles as a collection is indicated by the subtitle: "some background information at the time of the shutdown crisis, October 2013".

Most of the articles are arranged alphabetically, including the one named in the title, "United States Department of Health and Human Services". There are five at the end which have been added to give a wider perspective concerning the development in the 20c. of medical practice among the people of the United States, namely: The article on Arrowsmith mentions the Flexner Report of 1910, and a comment in Public Health Reports, 2001, accessed from US National Library of Medicine, that the novel-
 * Arrowsmith (novel) (published 1925)
 * Félix d'Herelle (1873-1949)
 * Jacques Loeb (1859-1924)
 * Paul de Kruif (1890-1971)
 * Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (founded 1901).
 * predicted many of the successes and problems affecting today's medical profession, such as the competing needs and goals of clinicians and medical scientists; commercial interests of pharmaceutical companies developing new medications and vaccines versus the need to seek for scientific truth; political and social difficulties in developing programs that for protecting a community's public health; and the doctor's evolving role in American society. The collected articles may be informative for those in America who are directly involved in the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 or affected by it, but will also be informative for all who need to know about this aspect of the world-wide crisis connected with the US dollar, and the United States debt-ceiling debate of 2013): "The CBO has estimated that the exact date on which Treasury will have to begin prioritizing/delaying bills and/or actually defaulting on some obligations will fall between October 22 and October 31".

PediaPress info: Book size: about 424 pages. Price, delivered US, $ 25.10 Qexigator (talk) 14:34, 4 October 2013 (UTC)