Code Red
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-12941-9 (ISBN)
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.
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).
Acknowledgments vii PART 1: DIAGNOSING THE CONDITION 1 Introduction 3 Chapter One: An Accidental Healthcare System 8 Chapter Two: Paging Doctor Welby 30 Chapter Three: Therapy for an Ailing Health Economy 58 Chapter Four: The Managed Care Prescription 83 PART 2: SEARCHING FOR CURES 119 Chapter Five: Self-Help 121 Chapter Six: The Quality Revolution 147 Chapter Seven: Mending the Safety Net 176 Chapter Eight: Reviving the American Healthcare System 205 Appendix: An Alphabet Soup of Healthcare Acronyms 235 Notes 239 Bibliography 255 Index 269
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.2.2008 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 halftone. 11 tables. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 539 g |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-12941-X / 069112941X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-12941-9 / 9780691129419 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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