In excellent health : setting the record straight on America's health care /

In excellent health : setting the record straight on America's health care /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Atlas, Scott W., 1955-
Imprint:	Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiv, 359 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 567 Hoover Institution Press publication ; 567.
Subject:	Medical care -- United States. Health care reform -- United States. Delivery of Health Care. Quality of Health Care. Health Care Reform. Health care reform. Medical care. United States. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11141623

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ISBN:	9780817914462 0817914463 9780817914486 081791448X 1306204291 9781306204293 0817914447 9780817914448 9780817914448 9780817914463
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English.
Summary:	In Excellent Health offers an alternative view of the much maligned state of health care in America, using facts and peer-reviewed data to challenge the statistics often cited as evidence that medical care in the United States is substandard and poor in value relative to that of other countries. The author proposes a complete plan for reform in three critical areas of the health care puzzle, tax structure, private insurance markets, and government health insurance programs, designed to maintain choice and access to excellence and facilitate competition.
Other form:	Print version: 9780817914448 Print version: 9780817914462

Table of Contents:

The WHO ranking of health systems redux : a critical appraisal
Ranking health systems : the limited value of life expectancy and infant mortality comparisons
Measuring medical care quality in the United States
Access to America's medical care
Maintaining excellence while reducing costs : an American solution to the American health care system.