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Rx for health care reform

Author

Terry, Ken, 1948-

Title

Rx for health care reform / Ken Terry ; foreword by Paul B. Ginsburg.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.

Description

xix, 364 p. ; 24 cm.

URL

<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007007055.html

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-353) and index.

Contents

• How we got into this mess
• 'Round and 'round on the reform carousel
• The two faces of disease management
• Paying for performance
• EHRs: necessary but not sufficient
• Can consumers direct their own care?
• The limits of evidence
• Supply-induced demand
• Physicians go for the gold
• Hospitals flex their muscles
• Why do drugs cost so much?
• This market needs regulation
• Putting doctors together
• Why groups should take financial risk
• A real-world model for reform
• The end of insurance as we know it
• Getting down to nuts and bolts
• Universal health care
• Toward uniform hospital pricing
• Let "hospitalists" take charge
• Health planning and the CON
• What works best in practice?
• Must technology break the bank?
• Toward a rational system of rationing.

Subject headings

Health care reform--United States. Medical policy--United States. Medical care--United States.

Medical subjects

Health Care Reform--United States. Health Care Sector--United States.

ISBN

9780826515704 (cloth : alk. paper) 0826515703 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780826515711 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0826515711 (pbk. : alk. paper)