The Cure [[electronic resource] ] : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
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| Autore: |
Gratzer David
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| Titolo: |
The Cure [[electronic resource] ] : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Encounter Books, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.4/73621 |
| 338.473621 | |
| 362.10973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Capitalism -- 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 18 |
| HillaryCare 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 Page | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | We 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Cure |
| ISBN: | 1-282-80593-2 |
| 9786612805936 | |
| 1-59403-279-3 | |
| 1-59403-364-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814963803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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