LEADER 04458nam 22008053u 450 001 9910456613703321 005 20210114203019.0 010 $a1-282-80593-2 010 $a9786612805936 010 $a1-59403-279-3 010 $a1-59403-364-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000004450 035 $a(EBL)908148 035 $a(OCoLC)798535247 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431917 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12143549 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431917 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10477666 035 $a(PQKB)10703091 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908148 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000004450 100 $a20130418d2009|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Cure$b[electronic resource] $eHow Capitalism Can Save American Health Care 210 $aNew York $cEncounter Books$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-59403-219-X 327 $aPraise; 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 18 327 $aHillaryCare 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) 327 $aMy 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 330 $aWe 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 606 $aCapitalism -- Canada 606 $aCapitalism -- United States 606 $aCapitalism 606 $aDelivery of Health Care -- Canada 606 $aDelivery of Health Care -- United States 606 $aHealth Care Reform -- Canada 606 $aHealth Care Reform -- United States 606 $aHealth insurance -- Canada 606 $aHealth insurance -- United States 606 $aMedical care -- Cost control 606 $aMedical economics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aCapitalism -- Canada. 615 4$aCapitalism -- United States. 615 4$aCapitalism. 615 4$aDelivery of Health Care -- Canada. 615 4$aDelivery of Health Care -- United States. 615 4$aHealth Care Reform -- Canada. 615 4$aHealth Care Reform -- United States. 615 4$aHealth insurance -- Canada. 615 4$aHealth insurance -- United States. 615 4$aMedical care -- Cost control. 615 4$aMedical economics. 676 $a338.4/73621 676 $a338.473621 676 $a362.10973 700 $aGratzer$b David$0979982 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456613703321 996 $aThe Cure$92234956 997 $aUNINA