Health care for us all : getting more for our investment /
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| Author / Creator: | Grinols, Earl L., 1951- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xxvi, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7788776 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Executive Summary of the Targeted Intervention Plan
- Part I. Goals and Working Principles
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Goals
- 2.1. Goal 1: Universal Coverage
- 2.2. Goal 2: Patient-Centered Coverage
- 2.3. Goal 3: Respect for Incentives for High-Quality Care
- 2.4. Goal 4: Cost Containment
- 2.5. Goal 5: Sustainability
- 3. Principles
- 3.1. Principle 1: The Intervention Principle
- 3.2. Principle 2: Incentive Symmetry
- 3.3. Principle 3: Every Pot Sits on Its Own Base
- 3.4. Principle 4: No Polittroughing
- 3.5. Principle 5: No Governmentalizing
- 3.6. Principle 6: No Ponzi Schemes
- Part II. Background Economics and Ethics
- 4. Markets, VPO's Government
- 4.1. Voluntary Private Organizations
- 4.2. Markets
- 4.3. Government
- 4.4. Implications for Efficient Intervention in Health
- 5. Education, Charity, and the American Ethical Base
- 5.1. Lessons from Education
- 5.2. The American Ethical Base
- 5.3. Summary on Public Provision of Private Goods and Charity
- Part III. Application
- 6. Why Government in Health Care?
- 6.1. Efficient Collective Action: Reprise
- 6.2. Public Provision of Private Goods Cautions
- 6.3. Is Health Care Different?
- 6.4. Conclusion
- 7. Insurance
- 7.1. What's Wrong with This Tale?
- 7.2. Essential Insurance
- 7.3. Summary and Evaluative Discussion
- 8. The Targeted Intervention Plan
- 8.1. The Plan
- 8.2. Enabling Compassion
- 8.3. Financing the Targeted Intervention Plan
- 8.4. Transition Issues
- 8.5. Mandates versus Incentives versus Leaving Some Uninsured
- 8.6. Answers to Questions
- 8.7. How the System Works: A Parable
- 8.8. Conclusions
- Part IV. Protective Measures
- 9. Forestalling Free Riders
- 9.1. Background
- 9.2. Massachusetts: Leveling the Playing Field
- 9.3. Switzerland: Individual Responsibility in a Federalist Framework
- 9.4. Lessons from Massachusetts and Switzerland
- 10. Preserving Prices
- 10.1. Background
- 10.2. Pricing
- 10.3. Restraining Prices in Theory
- 10.4. Rationalization Suggestions
- 10.5. Conclusions
- 11. Inducing Innovation
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Policies toward Research and Development (R&D)
- 11.3. The Intertemporal Bounty
- 11.4. Conclusion
- 12. Summary
- A. Top Ten Goals for the American Health Care System
- B. Badly Done Insurance Programs Can be Worse Than No Insurance
- C. Incentive Symmetry and Intervention Principle
- C.1. Notation
- C.2. Incentive Symmetry
- C.3. Intervention Principle
- D. Plan Workability
- D.1. Data
- D.2. Assessing the Targeted Intervention Plan
- D.3. Recommendations
- D.4. Summary and Evaluative Discussion
- E. Market Power Response to Insurance
- Glossary and Definitions
- References
- Index
