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Phelps Charles E |
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Eight questions you should ask about our health care system (even if the answers make you sick) [[electronic resource] /] / Charles E. Phelps |
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Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Collana |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 581 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical care - United States |
Medical policy - United States |
Health insurance - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: How Did We Get into this Mess, and Why Will It Get Worse?; Chapter 2: When Is Less Insurance Better than More?; Chapter 3: How Does Good Technology Go Bad?A Tale of Two Cities (and More); Chapter 4: Why Is the Employer-Paid Foundation of HealthInsurance Riddled with Termites?; Chapter 5: Do Dollars Distort Doctors' Decisions?; Chapter 6: Why Are We All Killing Ourselves?; Chapter 7: Why Is Our K-12 Educational System a Public HealthMenace? |
Chapter 8: Where Does the Congress Miss Opportunities and HitPotholes?References; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Working Group onHealth Care Policy; Index |
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Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health care sector behaves, and a detailed analysis of ""the good, the bad, and the ugly"" parts of the system?from technological advances (the ""good"") to variations in treatment patterns (the ""bad"") to hidden costs and perverse incentives (the ""ugly""). He shows that much of the cost of health care ultimately derives from our own lifestyle choices and thus that education may well be the most powerful form of health reform we can envision. |
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