02863nam 2200649 a 450 991096746820332120230725060445.0978081791446397808179144620817914463(CKB)2550000000105259(EBL)1370698(SSID)ssj0000737851(PQKBManifestationID)12287869(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000737851(PQKBWorkID)10787253(PQKB)10336808(MiAaPQ)EBC3301823(MiAaPQ)EBC1370698(Au-PeEL)EBL3301823(CaPaEBR)ebr10580558(CaONFJC)MIL551680(OCoLC)808344420(Au-PeEL)EBL1370698(OCoLC)865651083(Perlego)1354113(EXLCZ)99255000000010525920110902d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn excellent health setting the record straight on America's health care /Scott W. AtlasStanford, Calif. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University20111 online resource (384 p.)Hoover Institution Press publication ;no. 567Description based upon print version of record.9780817914448 0817914447 Includes bibliographical references and index.The WHO ranking of health systems redux : a critical appraisal -- Ranking health systems : the limited value of life expectancy and infant mortality comparisons -- Measuring medical care quality in the United States -- Access to America's medical care -- Maintaining excellence while reducing costs : an American solution to the American health care system.In Excellent Health offers an alternative view of the much maligned state of health care in America, using facts and peer-reviewed data to challenge the statistics often cited as evidence that medical care in the United States is substandard and poor in value relative to that of other countries. The author proposes a complete plan for reform in three critical areas of the health care puzzle?tax structure, private insurance markets, and government health insurance programs?designed to maintain choice and access to excellence and facilitate competition.Hoover Institution Press publication ;567.Medical careUnited StatesHealth care reformUnited StatesMedical careHealth care reform362.10973Atlas Scott W.1955-1655946MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967468203321In excellent health4361743UNINA