Epidemic of care : a call for safer, better, and more accountable health care / George C. Halvorson, George J. Isham ; foreword by Alain Enthoven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halvorson, George C.

Contributor:

Isham, George J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

United States.

Health Care Costs.

Health Care Reform.

Health Services Accessibility.

Insurance, Health--economics.

Medically Uninsured.

Medical Subjects:

Health Care Costs.

United States.

Health Care Reform.

Health Services Accessibility.

Insurance, Health--economics.

Medically Uninsured.

Physical Description:

xxx, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2003]

Summary:

How to cure the system in a way politically acceptable to all sides

Contents:

Introduction: What Happened to My Paycheck? xv

1 Miracles Cost Money 1

2 Unsafe at Any Cost 13

3 Who Really Pays for All of That Care? 35

4 If It Works or Might Work, You Owe It to Me: How Americans' Entitlement to Care Drives Up Costs 47

5 Care Monopolies 63

6 Does the United States Pay Fair Prices by World Standards? 85

7 How the Internet Is Changing Health Care: I Learned About My Prosthesis on the Web 99

8 The Coming Crunch in Health Care Workers 109

9 Medical Necessity Calls, Fee Cuts, and PR Errors

Not a Good Start 117

10 So Why Don't We Just Go to a Single-Payer System and Save Bucks Like the Brits? 143

11 Where Do We Go from Here? A Call for a National Health Strategy 155

12 Patients Deserve Safe Care 159

13 401(k) Equivalent Choices in Health Care 181

14 Most Health Care Costs Are the Result of Bad Health 193

15 Caregiver Monopolies Should Not Be Our Care Model of Choice 207

16 Cut the Number of Uninsured in Half 217

17 Training Tomorrow's Caregivers and Reeningeering Care Delivery 233

18 A Call to Action 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.

ISBN:

0787968889

OCLC:

51647414