| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 570 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Setting the Stage: Health and Health Care over the Past ƯCentury -- Perfect Competition and its Applicability to Health Care Services -- Imperfections in the Market for Health Care Services -- Implications of an Imperfect Market I : Greater Utilization Due to Price Subsidies -- Implications of an Imperfect Market II : The Role of Induced Demand -- The Role of Price in Health Care Spending Growth -- Inequality of Wealth, Health, and Access to Care -- Origins and Structural Underpinnings of the US Health Care Industry -- The US Health Care Industry Takes Shape : The 1940s through 1965 -- Medicare -- Medicaid -- The Affordable Care Act -- Evidence-Based Practice -- Cost-Benefit, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Utility Analysis -- Health Care Law -- The Safety and Quality of Patient Care -- The Cost Conundrum I : Utilization -- The Cost Conundrum II : Price: Administration, Insurers, Physicians, and Hospitals -- The Cost Conundrum III : Price: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices -- Inequality of Access -- Improving the Balance I : Macro Considerations -- Improving the Balance II : Enhancing Care, Reducing Cost, and Improving Access |
| Summary |
"Guzick's premise is that the United States has a health care industry as opposed to a health care system. His book is organized around three elements of health care delivery: access, quality, and cost. He introduces the economic principles behind the function and dysfunction of the health care industry's flawed market. He analyzes how we came to have the industry we do and explores alternative financial models for the future"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical care, Cost of -- United States
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Medical economics -- United States
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Medical care -- United States.
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Medical care.
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Health Care Sector -- economics
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Delivery of Health Care
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Quality of Health Care
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Patient Care
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Medical care, Cost of
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Medical care
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Medical economics
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781421438665 |
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1421438666 |
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