Healthy, wealthy, and wise : five steps to a better health care system / John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler.

  • Cogan, John F.
Date:
[2005]
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"America's health-care system is the envy of the world, but it faces serious challenges. The costs of care are rising rapidly, the number of uninsured Americans is at an all-time high, and public dissatisfaction is steadily increasing. How can we preserve the strengths of our current system while correcting its weaknesses? Three of America's leading health-care scholars answer that question in Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise."--Jacket.

Publication/Creation

Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, [2005]

Physical description

ix, 130 pages ; 22 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-121) and index.

Contents

The good : innovation -- The bad : excessive costs and wasteful spending -- The ugly : uninsurance, the managed-care backlash, and medical errors -- Reform taxation of health-care expenses -- Reform regulation of markets for health insurance -- Expand provision of health information -- Control anticompetitive behavior -- Reform the malpractice system -- Study the tax preference for nonprofits -- Effects of reforms on health-care spending -- Effects of reforms on the uninsured -- Effects of reforms on the federal budget -- Distributional impact.

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    History of Medicine
    JOF.6
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  • 0844771783
  • 9780844771786