Your money or your life : strong medicine for America's health care system /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cutler, David M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Medical care > United States.
Health planning > United States.
Health behavior > United States.
Social medicine > United States.
Social medicine.
Health Planning > economics
Health Care Reform > economics
Social Medicine
Santé publique > Planification > États-Unis.
Habitudes sanitaires > États-Unis.
Médecine sociale.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Health behavior.
Health planning.
Medical care.
Gesundheitswesen.
Gesundheitspolitik.
Hospitais > Estados unidos.
United States
United States.
USA.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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