Rx for Health Care Reform

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2007-09-15
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0826515711
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Rx for Health Care Reform pdf
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In this readable and well-researched book, Ken Terry analyzes the current state of health care reform and finds it wanting. Instead of tackling the core problems in our failing system, he argues, politicians, insurance executives, and health care leaders have embraced ideologically driven initiatives that pursue impractical objectives or will take too long to bear fruit. Among these are such widely hailed trends as disease management, pay for performance, cost and price ìtransparency,î consumer-directed care, and health information technology, none of which will reverse the rising tide of health spending. What is creating this nightmare scenario, according to Terry, is the sheer profitability of the health care industry. Insurers, physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and device manufacturers are all striving to maximize their profits, and there is no effective competition or regulation to restrain them. Only a complete overhaul of our system for financing and delivering h Download Rx for Health Care Reform for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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