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UNINA9910456613703321 |
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Gratzer David |
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The Cure [[electronic resource] ] : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care |
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New York, : Encounter Books, 2009 |
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1-282-80593-2 |
9786612805936 |
1-59403-279-3 |
1-59403-364-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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338.4/73621 |
338.473621 |
362.10973 |
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Capitalism -- Canada |
Capitalism -- United States |
Capitalism |
Delivery of Health Care -- Canada |
Delivery of Health Care -- United States |
Health Care Reform -- Canada |
Health Care Reform -- United States |
Health insurance -- Canada |
Health insurance -- United States |
Medical care -- Cost control |
Medical economics |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Praise; Title Page; Dedication; Foreword; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; ONE - Dick Cheney's Heart; My Heart Surgery and Dick Cheney's; TWO - Two Days That Changed Health Care; The Beveridge Report; Overinsured in America; Why Does Health Care Cost So Much?; The Competition Problem; THREE - Nixon's Revenge; The |
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Rise of HMOs; And the Fall; Why HMOs Failed; FOUR - The Third Way; Operating in the Dark (and an Alternative); A Step in the Right Direction; Responding to the Critics; Building a Market for Health Care; FIVE - Insuring America; What We All Know: 46 and 18 |
HillaryCare at WorkWhat to Do?; SIX - Mills' Revenge: Medicaid; A Formula for More; How Not to Reform Medicaid; Getting Serious about Medicaid Reform; SEVEN - Mills' Revenge II: Medicare; Medicare Modernization Act; The Four I's of Medicare; How Not to Reform Medicare; What Your Mailman Knows; How to Reform Medicare; EIGHT - Our Drug Problem; Importing a Bad Idea; Overinsured in America; Ever Cautious at the FDA; Faster Drug Approvals; Safer Drugs; NINE - The Hip That Changed History; The Government Temptation; The Best Health Care in the World (Unless You're Sick) |
My Waiting List Problem-and OursBritish and European Health Care; Isn't it better in a public system?; Public Systems, Market Reforms; TEN - The Three Keys; Making Health Insurance Portable; Shoring up Medicare; Creating a Market for Medical Progress; The Cure; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index; Copyright Page |
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We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is American health care such a mess? In this path-breaking book--Nobel laureate Milton Friedman calls it ""fascinating and thorough""--Dr. David Gratzer goes to the heart of the problem, showing that the crisis in American health care stems largely from its addiction to outmoded and discredited e |
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UNIORUON00480530 |
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Communicating medicine, popularizing medicine / edited by Franca Daniele, Giuliana Garzone |
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Milano, : F. Angeli, c2016 |
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