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The cure that works : how to have the world's best health care-- at a quarter of the price / Sean Masaki Flynn, PhD.

Van Pelt Library RA410 .F59 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Flynn, Sean Masaki, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Health services administration--Economic aspects.
Health services administration.
Medical economics.
Managerial economics.
Health Services Administration--economic.
Economics, Medical--organization & administration.
Medical Subjects:
Health Services Administration--economic.
Economics, Medical--organization & administration.
Physical Description:
xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group, [2019]
Summary:
The author provides a data-driven analysis that demonstrates how Singapore's free-market healthcare system could be a model for drastically improving American healthcare and cutting costs.
Contents:
Chapter 1 The Cabbie's Tale p. 1
Chapter 2 Singapore Past and Present p. 7
Chapter 3 Singapore's Healthcare Supremacy p. 19
Chapter 4 America's Healthcare Humiliation in an international Perspective p. 31
Chapter 5 What We Could Do If We Copied Singapore p. 37
Chapter 6 Why Is the US Healthcare System Doing So Badly? p. 41
Chapter 7 Provoking Profligacy with Low Out-of-Pocket Costs p. 49
Chapter 8 How "Single-Payer" Systems Spend Less Than We Do p. 57
Chapter 9 Empowering Prudence with First-Party Payments p. 65
Chapter 10 The Origins of America's Employment-Based Health Insurance System p. 73
Chapter 11 How to Engineer Low-Cost Health Insurance p. 79
Chapter 12 Visiting Singapore's Hospitals and Clinics p. 89
Chapter 13 MediSave and the Miraculous 3Ms p. 101
Chapter 14 MediShield and the Right Incentives p. 109
Chapter 15 MediShield Encourages Participation and Fairness with Age-Rated Insurance p. 119
Chapter 16 MediFund and Direct Subsidies: ' Singapore's Amazing Healthcare Safety Net p. 127
Chapter 17 Singapore's Multiple Ward Classes: Healthcare, Not Hotels p. 133
Chapter 18 Pharmaceuticals in Singapore p. 141
Chapter 19 The 3Ms Dominate Incentives, Not Payments p. 149
Chapter 20 MediShield Life and the Future of Singapore's Healthcare System p. 155
Chapter 21 The State of Indiana's Consumer-Driven Healthcare Plan p. 161
Chapter 22 RAND and Oregon; Slashing Spending without Hurting Health p. 173
Chapter 23 Why Healthcare Spending Can Decline without Hurting Health Outcomes p. 183
Chapter 24 P, Q, and Big Savings for You p. 193
Chapter 25 You Have to Fund People's HSAs for Them p. 205
Chapter 26 We Must Rescue the Poor from Medicaid p. 209
Chapter 27 Visiting the Free Market Medical Association p. 217
Chapter 28 My Proposal for Reforming the US Healthcare System p. 225
Chapter 29 Help Defeat the Special Interests p. 239.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276).
ISBN:
9781621579533
1621579530
OCLC:
1105587641

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