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Your money or your life : strong medicine for America's health care system / David M. Cutler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cutler, David M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--United States.
- Medical care.
- Health planning--United States.
- Health planning.
- Health behavior--United States.
- Health behavior.
- Social medicine--United States.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offers an economic approach to reforming healthcare. This book argues that the successes of the system suggest ways in which we might improve care, make the system easier to deal with, and extend coverage to all Americans. It applies an economic analysis to show that our spending on medicine is well worth it.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Crisis by Design; 1 The Health of the Nation: A History; 2 Pricing the Priceless; 3 Success and Failure at the Beginning of Life; 4 The Power of the Pill: Prozac and the Revolution in Mental Health Care; 5 The Heart of the Matter; 6 Medical Care: Of What Value?; 7 You Get What You Pay For; 8 The Managed Care Debacle; 9 Paying for Health; 10 Universal Benefits; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-983974-3
- 1-280-83828-0
- 0-19-803640-X
- OCLC:
- 476025520
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