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Code red : an economist explains how to revive the healthcare system without destroying it / David Dranove

Author
Dranove, David
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
An accidental healthcare system -- Paging doctor Welby -- Therapy for an ailing health economy -- The managed care prescription -- Self-help -- The quality revolution -- Mending the safety net -- Reviving the American healthcare system.
Summary
The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality. Dranove offers pragmatic remedies, some of them controversial, all of them crucially needed to restore the system to vitality. He pays special attention to the plight of.
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ISBN
9781400829620 (electronic bk.)
1400829623 (electronic bk.)
1282157531
9781282157538
9780691129419 (alk. paper)
069112941X (alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.
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