Who killed health care? America's $2 trillion medical problem--and the consumer-driven cure /
| Main Author: | Herzlinger, Regina E. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
McGraw Hill,
[2007]
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| Physical Description: |
vii, 304 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Who killed health care?
- The day health care died
- Death by a thousand cuts
- Killer number 1: the health insurers, death at the hands of a dysfunctional culture
- Killer number 2: the general hospitals, death at the hands of empire builders
- Killer number 3: the employers, death at the hands of a "choice" of one
- Killer number 4: the U.S. Congress, death at the hands of those elected to represent us
- Killer number 5: the academics, death at the hands of the elite policy makers
- The right medicine: consumer-driven health care
- How it works
- Consumer-driven benefits: lessons from other countries and industries
- How to make it happen: the carrots, the sticks, the laws
- The carrots: let medical business entrepreneurialism bloom
- The sticks: let information flow
- A bold new consumer-driven health care system: the laws and their legislators.