Restoring fiscal sanity 2007 : the health spending challenge / Alice M. Rivlin and Joseph R. Antos, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rivlin, Alice M.

Antos, Joseph R.

Brookings Institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care, Cost of--United States.

Medical care, Cost of.

Medical care--United States--Cost control.

Medical care.

Health care reform--Economic aspects--United States.

Health care reform.

Medical economics--United States.

Medical economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Authors suggest reforms in federal programs that have the potential to reduce the growth of spending for the entire health system, increase the efficiency and effectiveness of care provided, and enhance health outcomes and stress the need for innovative approaches and cooperation between the private and public sectors"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Overview

Rising health care spending

federal and national / Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin

Strategies for slowing the growth of health spending / Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin

The challenge of Medicare / Gail R. Wilensky

The role of Medicaid / Alan R. Weil and Louis F. Rossiter

Leveraging other federal health systems / Susan D. Hosek

Private payer roles in moving to more efficient health spending / Paul B. Ginsburg

Cost containment and the politics of health care reform / Judith Feder and Donald W. Moran

Building public support for slowing the growth of health care spending / Stuart M. Butler.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610856664

9781280856662

1280856661

9780815774921

0815774923

OCLC:

476065992