Taming the Beloved Beast : How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System /

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Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Y...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medical technology > Economic aspects.
Medical care, Cost of.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Soins medicaux > Coût.
Technologie medicale > Aspect economique > États-Unis.
Soins medicaux > Coût > États-Unis.
Insurance > economics
Health Care Costs
Biomedical Technology > economics
Medical technology > Economic aspects > United States.
Medical care, Cost of > United States.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Medicare on the ropes
  • Taming the beloved beast : medical technology
  • Getting serious about costs and technology
  • Competition : the fix that will fail
  • The cohabitation of medicine and commerce
  • "Medical necessity" : an all-but-useless concept
  • Redefining "medical necessity" : from individual good to common good
  • Getting out from under : the politics of pain.

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