Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The rise of medical expenditures
  • How much should we spend on medical care?
  • Do more medical expenditures produce better health?
  • In whose interest does the physician act?
  • Rationing medical services
  • How much health insurance should everyone have?
  • Why are those who most need health insurance least able to buy it?
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • How does Medicare pay physicians?
  • The impending shortage of physicians
  • The changing practice of medicine
  • Recurrent malpractice crises
  • Do nonprofit hospitals behave differently from for-profit hospitals?
  • Competition among hospitals: does it raise or lower costs?
  • The future role of hospitals
  • Cost shifting
  • Can price controls limit medical expenditure increases?
  • The evolution of managed care
  • Has competition been tried--and has it failed--to improve the us healthcare system?
  • Comparative effectiveness research
  • Us competitiveness and rising healthcare costs
  • Why is getting into medical school so difficult?
  • Will a shortage of registered nurses reoccur?
  • The high price of prescription drugs
  • Ensuring safety and efficacy of new drugs: too much of a good thing?
  • Why are prescription drugs less expensive overseas?
  • The pharmaceutical industry: a public policy dilemma
  • Should kidneys and other organs be bought and sold?
  • The role of government in medical care
  • Medical research, medical education, alcohol consumption, and pollution: who should pay?
  • The Canadian healthcare system
  • Employer-mandated national health insurance
  • National health insurance: which approach and why?
  • Financing long-term care
  • The politics of healthcare reform
  • Appendix: a brief summary of the patient protection and affordable care act of 2010.