Health care reform now! : a prescription for change / George C. Halvorson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halvorson, George C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

United States.

Medical economics--United States.

Medical economics.

Health insurance--United States.

Health insurance.

Health Care Reform--economics.

Economics, Medical--organization & administration.

Insurance--organization & administration.

Medical Subjects:

Health Care Reform--economics.

United States.

Economics, Medical--organization & administration.

Insurance--organization & administration.

Physical Description:

xviii, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint, [2007]

Summary:

An approach to health care reform that can work for everyone

This book is for everyone who cares enough about our health care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system. George Halvorson, an internationally known health care leader and author, provides a game plan for policymakers on both ends of the political spectrum who want to create a truly world-class health care system. He explains why health care reform must be based on improved quality, better access, and consumer empowerment. Simultaneously passionate and rational, the book details a model that solves the unsolvable by simplifying and streamlining our health care system in a way that works for patients, doctors, nurses, payers, and those who legislate policy.

George Halvorson (Alameda, CA) is Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals in Oakland, California.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The author

1. A few hard but useful truths

2. Data : the missing link for health care reform

3. What do we do until the EMR arrives?

4. Basic steps to improve care for chronic disease patients

5. Eight developments that finally make health care reform possible

6. Making the market work for health care

7. A new idea : the infrastructure vendor

8. Whom should we hire to reform our health care infrastructure?

9. Next steps and expectations

10. Cost shift realities

11. Universal coverage now!

12. So what should we do now?

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index.

ISBN:

9780787997526

0787997528

OCLC:

86113132

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