Healthy, wealthy, and wise : five steps to a better health care system /
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| Author / Creator: | Cogan, John F. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Stanford ; Washington, D.C. : Hoover Institution Press and AEI Press, 2011. |
| Description: | xiii,161 p. : charts ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 582 Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 582. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8365421 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Challenge: Obtaining High-Quality, Affordable Health Care
- The Good: Innovation
- The Bad: High Costs and a Large Uninsured Population
- High Costs: No Easy Answer
- The Uninsured Population: Many Causes, Uncertain Consequences
- The Ugly: Backlash against Markets and the Misguided Policy Response
- The Backlash against Markets
- The Misguided Policy Response
- Chapter 2. Five Policy Reforms to Make Markets Work
- Increase Individual Involvement in Health Care Decisions
- In Private Markets, Reform Taxation of Health Spending
- Increase Cost Sharing in Government Programs
- Deregulate Insurance Markets and Redesign Medicare and Medicaid
- Deregulate Insurance Markets
- Redesign Medicare and Medicaid
- Expand Provision of Health Information
- Control Anticompetitive Behavior
- Reform the Malpractice System
- Study the Tax Preference for Nonprofits
- Chapter 3. Impacts of Proposals on Health Care Spending, the Uninsured, the Federal Budget, and the Distribution of Tax Burdens
- Effects of Reforms on Health Care Spending
- Tax Deductibility
- Tax Credit
- Insurance-Market Reform
- Malpractice Reform
- Summary and Discussion
- Effects of Reforms on the Number of Uninsured
- Tax Deductibility
- Tax Credit
- Insurance-Market and Malpractice Reforms
- Summary and Discussion
- Effects of Reforms on the Federal Budget
- Tax Deductibility
- Tax Credit
- Insurance-Market and Malpractice Reforms
- Subsidy for the Chronically Ill
- Summary and Discussion
- Distributional Impact
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Estimating the Impact of Policy Reforms on Health Care Spending
- Appendix B. Estimating the Impact of Policy Reforms on Uninsurance
- Appendix C. Derivation of the Elasticity of Total Health Care Spending with Respect to the After-Tax Price of Out-of-Pocket Spending
- Appendix D. Estimating the Impact of Policy Reforms on the Federal Budget
- Notes
- About the Authors
- About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on Health Care Policy
- Index
