In excellent health : setting the record straight on America's health care / Scott W. Atlas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atlas, Scott W., 1955-

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 567.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 567

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Excellent Health offers an alternative view of the much maligned state of health care in America, using facts and peer-reviewed data to challenge the statistics often cited as evidence that medical care in the United States is substandard and poor in value relative to that of other countries. The author proposes a complete plan for reform in three critical areas of the health care puzzle?tax structure, private insurance markets, and government health insurance programs?designed to maintain choice and access to excellence and facilitate competition.

Contents:

The WHO ranking of health systems redux : a critical appraisal

Ranking health systems : the limited value of life expectancy and infant mortality comparisons

Measuring medical care quality in the United States

Access to America's medical care

Maintaining excellence while reducing costs : an American solution to the American health care system.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780817914463

9780817914462

0817914463

OCLC:

808344420