Healthy, wealthy, and wise : 5 steps to a better health care system / John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cogan, John F.

Contributor:

Hubbard, R. Glenn.

Kessler, Daniel P.

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 582.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 582

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

Medical care, Cost of--United States.

Medical care, Cost of.

Medical care--United States--Finance.

Medical care.

Medical policy--United States.

Medical policy.

Medical economics--United States.

Medical economics.

Health services accessibility--United States.

Health services accessibility.

Health insurance--United States.

Health insurance.

Tax credits--United States.

Tax credits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press ; Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- conscious behavior and competition in both private markets and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, we can slow the rate of growth of health care costs, expand access to high-quality health care, and slow down runaway spending.

Contents:

Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Challenge: Obtaining High-Quality, Affordable Health Care; The Good: Innovation; The Bad: High Costs and a Large UninsuredPopulation; High Costs: No Easy Answer; The Uninsured Population: Many Causes, UncertainConsequences; The Ugly: Backlash against Markets and theMisguided Policy Response; The Backlash against Markets; The Misguided Policy Response; Chapter 2. Five Policy Reforms to Make Markets Work; Increase Individual Involvement inHealth Care Decisions

In Private Markets, Reform Taxation of Health SpendingIncrease Cost Sharing in Government Programs; Deregulate Insurance Markets and RedesignMedicare and Medicaid; Deregulate Insurance Markets; Redesign Medicare and Medicaid; Expand Provision of Health Information; Control Anticompetitive Behavior; Reform the Malpractice System; Study the Tax Preference for Nonprofits; Chapter 3. Impacts of Proposals on Health Care Spending, the Uninsured, the Federal Budget, and the Distribution of Tax Burdens; Effects of Reforms on Health Care Spending; Tax Deductibility; Tax Credit; Insurance-Market Reform

Malpractice ReformSummary and Discussion; Effects of Reforms on the Number of Uninsured; Tax Deductibility; Tax Credit; Insurance-Market and Malpractice Reforms; Summary and Discussion; Effects of Reforms on the Federal Budget; Tax Deductibility; Tax Credit; Insurance-Market and Malpractice Reforms; Subsidy for the Chronically Ill; Summary and Discussion; Distributional Impact; Conclusion; Appendix A. Estimating the Impact of Policy Reforms on Health Care Spending; Appendix B. Estimating the Impact of Policy Reforms on Uninsurance

Appendix C. Derivation of the Elasticity of Total Health Care Spending with Respect to the After-Tax Price of Out-of-Pocket SpendingAppendix D. Estimating the Impact of Policy Reforms on the Federal Budget; Notes; About the Authors; About the Hoover Institution's Working Groupon Health Care Policy; Index; About the Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780817910662

0817910662

OCLC:

876507533