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Flatlined : resuscitating American medicine /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clifton, Guy L., 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Health care reform > United States.
Medical policy > United States.
Health Care Reform.
Economics, Medical > trends.
Emergency Medical Services > organization & administration.
Hospitals > trends.
Insurance, Health > trends.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Not business as usual
  • Unreliable emergency services
  • An eroding infrastructure
  • Fifteen years lost
  • Handed health care's leftovers
  • Where we are headed
  • Thirty percent waste--or fifty?
  • Poor-quality primary care
  • Dangerous hospitals
  • Violation of dignity : the end of life
  • Unnecessary surgery
  • Perverse payment incentives
  • Three pathways to hospital profitability
  • Pharmaceuticals : remarkable innovation, shameless puffery
  • Private health insurance : no added value
  • Three options for covering the uninsured
  • No coverage expansion without cost control
  • A workable plan for reform
  • Establishing standards
  • Prioritizing primary care
  • Reducing spending on hospitals and specialists
  • Positioning of a national medical quality system.