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Rx for health care reform /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Terry, Ken, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Health Care Sector > United States.
Health Care Reform > United States.
Medical care > United States.
Medical policy > United States.
Health care reform > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.