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Epidemic of care : a call for safer, better, and more accountable health care
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- Creator
- George C. Halvorson, George J. Isham ; foreword by Alain Enthoven
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2003]
- ©2003
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- xxx, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780787968885, 0787968889
- OCLC
- ocm51647414
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.
- Miracles cost money -- Unsafe at any cost -- Who really pays for all of that care? -- If it works or might work, you owe it to me : how Americans' entitlement to care drives up costs -- Care monopolies -- Does the United States pay fair prices by world standards? -- How the Internet is changing health care : I learned about my prosthesis on the web -- The coming crunch in health care workers -- Medical necessity calls, fee cuts, and PR errors--not a good start -- So why don't we just go to a single-payer system and save bucks like the Brits? -- Where do we go from here? : a call for a national health strategy -- Patients deserve safe care -- 401(k) equivalent choices in health care -- Most health care costs are the result of bad health -- Caregiver monopolies should not be our care model of choice -- Cut the number of uninsured in half -- Training tomorrow's caregivers and reengineering care delivery -- A call to action
Subjects
- Health care reform -- United States.
- Health Care Costs -- United States.
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- Health Care Reform -- United States.
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- Health Services Accessibility -- United States.
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- Insurance, Health -- economics -- United States.
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- Medically Uninsured -- United States.
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