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
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Summary: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. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9781400830947

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