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The Cure : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care.

We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gratzer, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Encounter Books, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Praise; Title Page; Dedication; Foreword; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; ONE
  • Dick Cheney's Heart; My Heart Surgery and Dick Cheney's; TWO
  • Two Days That Changed Health Care; The Beveridge Report; Overinsured in America; Why Does Health Care Cost So Much?; The Competition Problem; THREE
  • Nixon's Revenge; The Rise of HMOs; And the Fall; Why HMOs Failed; FOUR
  • The Third Way; Operating in the Dark (and an Alternative); A Step in the Right Direction; Responding to the Critics; Building a Market for Health Care; FIVE
  • Insuring America; What We All Know: 46 and 18.
  • HillaryCare at WorkWhat to Do?; SIX
  • Mills' Revenge: Medicaid; A Formula for More; How Not to Reform Medicaid; Getting Serious about Medicaid Reform; SEVEN
  • Mills' Revenge II: Medicare; Medicare Modernization Act; The Four I's of Medicare; How Not to Reform Medicare; What Your Mailman Knows; How to Reform Medicare; EIGHT
  • Our Drug Problem; Importing a Bad Idea; Overinsured in America; Ever Cautious at the FDA; Faster Drug Approvals; Safer Drugs; NINE
  • The Hip That Changed History; The Government Temptation; The Best Health Care in the World (Unless You're Sick).
  • My Waiting List Problem-and OursBritish and European Health Care; Isn't it better in a public system?; Public Systems, Market Reforms; TEN
  • The Three Keys; Making Health Insurance Portable; Shoring up Medicare; Creating a Market for Medical Progress; The Cure; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index; Copyright Page.