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Crisis of abundance : rethinking how we pay for health care
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America's health care troubles stem largely from a great success: Modern medicine can do much more today than in the past. The problem is how to pay for it. In easy to understand prose, MIT-trained...
America's health care troubles stem largely from a great success: Modern medicine can do much more today than in the past. The problem is how to pay for it. In easy to understand prose, MIT-trained economist Arnold Kling explains better ways of financing health care by relying less on government and more on private savings and insurance. A must-read for health care reformers.
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- Creator
- Arnold Kling
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (126 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781281905253, 9781933995342, 1933995343, 9781601290304, 1281905259, 9781933995137, 9781930865891, 1933995130, 1930865899, 9786611905255, 1601290306
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- ocm65065433, ocm75497432, ocn615587432
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-103) and index.
- English
- Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay For Health Care; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Rise of Premium Medicine; 2. Three Health Care Narratives; 3. Dollars and Decisions; 4. No Perfect Health Care System; 5. Insulation vs. Insurance; 6. Matching Funding Systems to Needs; 7. Markets and Evolution; 8. Policy Ideas; CONCLUSION; NOTES; ABOUT THE AUTHOR