LEADER 03776nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910462532903321 005 20210423234036.0 010 $a1-283-60434-5 010 $a9786613916792 010 $a0-300-18848-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300188486 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241842 035 $a(EBL)3421051 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000736904 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11422500 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000736904 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10783858 035 $a(PQKB)10899086 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421051 035 $a(DE-B1597)485641 035 $a(OCoLC)811206317 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300188486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421051 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10602422 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL391679 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241842 100 $a20111102d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe cost disease$b[electronic resource] $ewhy computers get cheaper and health care doesn't /$fWilliam J. Baumol; with contributions by David de Ferranti ...[et. al.] 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-17928-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Why Health-Care Costs Keep Rising --$t2. What Causes the Cost Disease, and Will It Persist? --$t3. The Future Has Arrived --$t4. Yes, We Can Afford It --$t5. Dark Sides of the Disease: Terrorism and Environmental Destruction --$t6. Common Misunderstandings of the Cost Disease: Cost Versus Quality and Financial Versus "Physical" Output Measures --$t7. The Cost Disease and Global Health --$t8. Hybrid Industries and the Cost Disease --$t9. Productivity Growth, Employment Allocation, and the Special Case of Business Services --$t10. Business Services in Health Care --$t11. Yes, We Can Cut Health-Care Costs Even If We Cannot Reduce Their Growth Rate --$t12. Conclusions: Where Are We Headed and What Should We Do? --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tAbout the Authors --$tIndex 330 $aThe exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a major source of rapidly rising costs in service sectors of the economy. Once we understand that disease, he explains, effective responses become apparent. Baumol presents his analysis with characteristic clarity, tracing the fast-rising prices of health care and education in the U.S. and other major industrial nations, then examining the underlying causes of the phenomenon, which have to do with the nature of providing labor-intensive services. The news is good, Baumol reassures, because the nature of the disease is such that society will be able to afford the rising costs. 606 $aMedical care$zUnited States$xCost control 606 $aMedical care, Cost of$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMedical care$xCost control. 615 0$aMedical care, Cost of 676 $a338.433621 686 $aQX 700$2rvk 700 $aBaumol$b William J$0268191 701 $aDe Ferranti$b David M$0918864 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462532903321 996 $aThe cost disease$92476305 997 $aUNINA