Rx for health care reform /
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| Author / Creator: | Terry, Ken, 1948- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | xix, 364 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6612599 |
Table of Contents:
- How we got into this mess
- 'Round and 'round on the reform carousel
- The two faces of disease management
- Paying for performance
- EHRs: necessary but not sufficient
- Can consumers direct their own care?
- The limits of evidence
- Supply-induced demand
- Physicians go for the gold
- Hospitals flex their muscles
- Why do drugs cost so much?
- This market needs regulation
- Putting doctors together
- Why groups should take financial risk
- A real-world model for reform
- The end of insurance as we know it
- Getting down to nuts and bolts
- Universal health care
- Toward uniform hospital pricing
- Let "hospitalists" take charge
- Health planning and the CON
- What works best in practice?
- Must technology break the bank?
- Toward a rational system of rationing.
