04425nam 22007933u 450 991078091420332120230721005638.01-282-80593-297866128059361-59403-279-31-59403-364-1(CKB)2550000000004450(EBL)908148(OCoLC)798535247(SSID)ssj0000431917(PQKBManifestationID)12143549(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431917(PQKBWorkID)10477666(PQKB)10703091(MiAaPQ)EBC908148(EXLCZ)99255000000000445020130418d2009|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Cure[electronic resource] How Capitalism Can Save American Health CareNew York Encounter Books20091 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59403-219-X 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 18HillaryCare 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 PageWe 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 eCapitalism -- CanadaCapitalism -- United StatesCapitalismDelivery of Health Care -- CanadaDelivery of Health Care -- United StatesHealth Care Reform -- CanadaHealth Care Reform -- United StatesHealth insurance -- CanadaHealth insurance -- United StatesMedical care -- Cost controlMedical economicsCapitalism -- 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.338.4/73621338.473621362.10973Gratzer David1518976AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910780914203321The Cure3756824UNINA