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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.
- 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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