Code Red (eBook)

An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It

David Dranove (Autor)

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2009
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2962-0 (ISBN)

Infos

David Dranove is the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. His books include What's Your Life Worth? and The Economic Evolution of American Health Care (Princeton).

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The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality. Dranove offers pragmatic remedies, some of them controversial, all of them crucially needed to restore the system to vitality. He pays special attention to the plight of the uninsured, and proposes a new direction that promises to make premier healthcare for all Americans a national reality. Setting his story against the backdrop of healthcare in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present day, he reveals why a century of private and public sector efforts to reform the ailing system have largely failed. He draws on insights from economics to diagnose the root causes of rising costs and diminishing access to quality care, such as inadequate information, perverse incentives, and malfunctioning insurance markets. Dranove describes the ongoing efforts to revive the system--including the rise of consumerism, the quality movement, and initiatives to expand access--and argues that these efforts are doomed to fail without more fundamental, systemic, market-based reforms. Code Red lays the foundation for a thriving healthcare system and is indispensable for anyone trying to make sense of the thorny issues of healthcare reform.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.4.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone. 11 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Versicherungsbetriebslehre
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Accounting • adverse selection • American Medical Association • Capitation (healthcare) • Cardiac Surgery • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services • Clinton health care plan of 1993 • consumer choice • Consumer-driven healthcare • Copayment • cost-effectiveness analysis • cost reduction • Cream Skimming • Crossing the Quality Chasm • Customer • deductible • Discounts and allowances • economist • Employee Retirement Income Security Act • Employment • Expense • Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 • Funding • Health Care • healthcare industry • Health Care Reform • Health Economics • health insurance • Health insurance mandate • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act • Health maintenance organization • health policy • Health system • Health Technology • Hospital • income • incrementalism • indemnity • insurance • insurance policy • Integrated delivery system • Kaiser Family Foundation • Legislation • malpractice • Massachusetts health care reform • Medicaid • medical billing • medical school • Medical underwriting • Moral Hazard • national health insurance • newspaper • Nonprofit Organization • nursing • Nursing home care • Payment • percentage • Pharmaceutical Industry • Physician • Politician • prescription drug • Preventive Services • Pricing • Primary care physician • private sector • Professional Review Organizations • Prospective payment system • Provision (accounting) • Public Health • Public sector • Quality-adjusted life year • rationing • Referral (medicine) • Reimbursement • Requirement • Retirement • risk adjustment • risk pool • Safety net hospital • salary • saving • Self-insurance • shortage • Small Business • socialized medicine • Specialty (medicine) • State Children's Health Insurance Program • Subsidy • Supply (economics) • Surgery • Tax • tax credit • Tax deduction • Tax exemption • Taxpayer • Technology • UnitedHealth Group • universal health care • Utilization • utilization management
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2962-3 / 1400829623
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2962-0 / 9781400829620