| Description |
1 online resource (268 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
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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) |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Capitalism.
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Medical care -- Cost control.
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Medical economics.
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Economics, Medical
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Capitalism
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Medical care -- Cost control
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Medical economics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781594032790 |
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1594032793 |
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1282805932 |
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9781282805934 |
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9786612805936 |
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6612805935 |
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1594033641 |
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9781594033643 |
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