The Future of Health-Care Delivery Why It Must Change and How It Will Affect You / Stephen C. Schimpff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schimpff, Stephen C., 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--United States--Forecasting.

Medical policy.

Medical care--United States--Forecasting.

Medical care.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A road map to a better health-care system

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; PART I. A VISION FOR HEALTH-CARE DELIVERY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 1 The Difference between Health Care and Medical Care; 2 What Really Needs to Change; 3 What Change Looks Like: A Vision for the Future; PART II. MEGATRENDS IN MEDICAL CARE DELIVERY; 4 Scientific Advances That Will Affect Health Care-with or without Reform; 5 Surprising Drivers of Change in Health-Care Delivery; 6 The Tsunami Is Coming; PART III. THE COST OF MEDICAL CARE IN AMERICA; 7 Health-Care Financing: Basic Concepts; 8 The Real Reason Why Our Health-Care Costs Keep Going Up

9 The High Cost of Drugs and Technologies10 The High Cost of Poor Safety and Low-Quality Care; 11 The Costs of Too Much Care; 12 We Have Met the Enemy and He Isn't the Insurance Company; 13 The Looming Crisis in Primary Care; 14 Some Final Thoughts on Cost Management; PART IV. HEALTH-CARE REFORM; 15 What Reform Looks Like: Differing Views; 16 Recommendations for Reform: Aligning Rights with Responsibilities; 17 What You Can Do to Get Quality Care and Keep Your Costs Down; Acknowledgments; Notes; Resources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61234-157-8

OCLC:

775674976