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Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System (Even if the Answers Make You Sick): Hoover Institution Press Publication

Autor Charles E. Phelps
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iul 2010
Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health-care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health-care sector behaves, and a detailed analysis of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” parts of the system—from technological advances (the “good”) to variations in treatment patterns (the “bad”) to hidden costs and perverse incentives (the “ugly”). He shows that much of the cost of health care ultimately derives from our own lifestyle choices and thus that education may well be the most powerful form of health reform we can envision.
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ISBN-13: 9780817910549
ISBN-10: 0817910549
Pagini: 151
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Hoover Institution Press
Colecția Hoover Institution Press
Seria Hoover Institution Press Publication


Notă biografică

Charles E. Phelps is University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Rochester. He earned his B.A. in Mathematics from Pomona College, and his M.B.A. in Hospital Administration and Ph.D. in Business Economics from the University of Chicago.

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To comprehend the likely consequences of federal health-care legislation and the private-sector response, it is important to understand how the current system evolved and learn some details about how the health-care sector behaves. In Eight Questions You Should Ask about Our Health Care System (Even if the Answers Make You Sick), Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health-care system, including a detailed analysis of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” parts of the system—from technological advances (the “good”) to variations in treatment patterns (the “bad”) to hidden costs and perverse incentives (the “ugly”).
Phelps shows that our system seems deliberately to make it difficult for people to understand and react to incentives in our health care and details the specific complications our federal tax system creates in these matters. He provides examples of how incentives alter the behavior of doctors, hospitals, and other health-care providers and shows why the system will remain both costly and ineffective until we fix the incentives. Perhaps most important, he reveals that much of the cost of health care ultimately derives from our own lifestyle choices and thus that education may well be the most powerful form of health reform we can envision.
Charles E. Phelps is University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Rochester.

Cuprins

Foreword by John Raisian
Preface
Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE
How Did We Get into this Mess, and Why Will It Get Worse?

CHAPTER TWO
When Is Less Insurance Better than More?

CHAPTER THREE
How Does Good Technology Go Bad? A Tale of Two Cities (and More)

CHAPTER FOUR
Why Is the Employer-Paid Foundation of Health Insurance Riddled with Termites?

CHAPTER FIVE
Do Dollars Distort Doctor’s Decisions?

CHAPTER SIX
Why Are We All Killing Ourselves? 105
CHAPTER SEVEN
Why Is Our K–12 Educational System a Public Health Menace?

CHAPTER EIGHT
Where Does the Congress Miss Opportunities and Hit Potholes?

References
About the Author
About the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Health Care Policy
Index

Descriere

A comprehensive look at our health-care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health-care sector behaves, and a detailed analysis of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” parts of the system.