The quality cure : how focusing on health care quality can save your life and lower spending too / David Cutler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cutler, David M.

Series:

Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy ; 9

Wildavsky Forum Series ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care.

Medical care--Quality control.

Outcome assessment (Medical care).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality Cure, renowned health care economist and former Obama advisor David Cutler offers an accessible and incisive account of the issues and their causes, as well as a road map for the future of health care reform-one that shows how information technology, realigned payment systems, and value-focused organizations together have the power to resolve this seemingly intractable problem and transform the US health care system into one that is affordable, efficient, and effective.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Cost, Access, and Quality: The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse

2. The Value Proposition

3. The Cost Control Debate

4. The Quality Cure

5. It's What You Know

6. Pricing the Priceless

7. Take Me to Your Leader

8. How Long Will It Take?

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520282001

0520282000

9780520957763

0520957768

OCLC:

869455197