Catastrophic care : how American health care killed my father--and how we can fix it /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Goldhill, David.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Description:	viii, 369 pages ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical care, Cost of -- United States. Health insurance -- United States. Health services accessibility -- United States. Medical errors -- United States. Health insurance. Health services accessibility. Medical care, Cost of. Medical errors. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9289075

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ISBN:	9780307961549 (hardback) 0307961540 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-369).
Summary:	"A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding insurance coverage will only make things worse, and how it can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system. In 2007, David Goldhill's father died from a series of infections acquired in a well-regarded New York hospital. The bill was for several hundred thousand dollars--and Medicare paid it. These circumstances left Goldhill angry and determined to understand how it was possible that world-class technology and well-trained personnel could result in such simple, inexcusable carelessness--and how a business that failed so miserably could be rewarded with full payment. Catastrophic Care is the eye-opening result. Goldhill explicates a health-care system that now costs nearly $2.5 trillion annually, bars many from treatment, provides inconsistent quality of care, offers negligible customer service, and in which an estimated 200,000 Americans die each year from errors. Above all, he exposes the fundamental fallacy of our entire system--that Medicare and insurance coverage make care cheaper and improve our health--and suggests a comprehensive new approach that could produce better results at more acceptable costs immediately by giving us, the patients, a real role in the process. "-- "A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding insurance coverage will only make things worse, and how it can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system"--
Other form:	Online version: Goldhill, David. Catastrophic care. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 9780307961556

Table of Contents:

How American health care killed my father
Island-speak. Eleven strange things we all believe about health care
The hidden beast. The myth of affordable care
The disconnect. The absence of consumers in health care
The fallacy. Why we always think we need more health care
The seduction. Forty-five years of Medicare
The mirage of efficiency. Why the cost curve won't bend
The tyranny of rules. Why everything is so complicated
Last gasp. The ACA and the insurance fixation
In search of balance. How should we pay for health care?
Green shoots. Foundations of a better system
Transition. Can we get there from here?
Mae West didn't know health care
Appendix 1. Unintended consequences
Appendix 2. Déjà vu
Appendix 3. Shifting the government's focus to better health.

Catastrophic care : how American health care killed my father--and how we can fix it /

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