The Cure [[electronic resource] ] : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456613703321
• Autore: Gratzer David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Encounter Books, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-80593-2; 9786612805936; 1-59403-279-3; 1-59403-364-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/73621; 338.473621; 362.10973
• Soggetti: 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.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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