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Rx for Health Care Reform /
"In this readable and well-researched book, Ken Terry analyzes the current state of health care reform and finds it wanting. The prescription he writes bridges the gap between so-called liberal and conservative ideologies and offers a complete overhaul of our system for financing and delivering...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- How we got into this mess
- 'Round and 'round on the reform carousel
- The two faces of disease management
- Paying for performance
- EHRs: necessary but not sufficient
- Can consumers direct their own care?
- The limits of evidence
- Supply-induced demand
- Physicians go for the gold
- Hospitals flex their muscles
- Why do drugs cost so much?
- This market needs regulation
- Putting doctors together
- Why groups should take financial risk
- A real-world model for reform
- The end of insurance as we know it
- Getting down to nuts and bolts
- Universal health care
- Toward uniform hospital pricing
- Let "hospitalists" take charge
- Health planning and the CON
- What works best in practice?
- Must technology break the bank?
- Toward a rational system of rationing.