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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition

By: John F. Cogan,R. Glenn Hubbard,Daniel P. Kessler

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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition

By: John F. Cogan,R. Glenn Hubbard,Daniel P. Kessler

In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- conscious behavior and competition in both private markets and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, we can slow the rate of growth of health care costs, expand access to high-quality health care, and slow down runaway spending.

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177

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Hoover Press

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0817910662

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9780817910662

Technological Change in Health Care

A Global Analysis of Heart Attack

By: Mark B. McClellan,Daniel P. Kessler

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Technological Change in Health Care

A Global Analysis of Heart Attack

By: Mark B. McClellan,Daniel P. Kessler

Illuminates the causes and consequences of technological change in health care in the developed world

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444

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University of Michigan Press

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0472111280

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9780472111282

Taming the Beloved Beast

How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System

By: Daniel Callahan

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Taming the Beloved Beast

How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System

By: Daniel Callahan

Why health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technology Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming everyone? In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts this dilemma head-on. He argues that we can't escape it by organizational changes alone. Nothing less than a fundamental transformation of our thinking about health care is needed to achieve lasting and economically sustainable reform. The technology bubble, he contends, is beginning to burst. Callahan weighs the ethical arguments for and against limiting the use of medical technologies, and he argues that reining in health care costs requires us to change entrenched values about progress and technological innovation. Taming the Beloved Beast shows that the cost crisis is as great as that of the uninsured. Only a government-regulated universal health care system can offer the hope of managing technology and making it affordable for all.

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280

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Princeton University Press

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0691177996

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9780691177991

Transatlantic Homeland Security

Protecting Society in the Age of Catastrophic Terrorism

By: Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen,Daniel Hamilton

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Transatlantic Homeland Security

Protecting Society in the Age of Catastrophic Terrorism

By: Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen,Daniel Hamilton

This major new study presents both conceptual and practical guidance at a crucial time when intellectual and practical efforts to protect against the new terrorism should move beyond a purely domestic focus. Creating an effective and integrated national homeland security effort is a significant challenge. Europe and the United States have reacted differently to the emergence of mass casualty terrorism, but must work together to cope with the diverse issue areas, sectors, professions, and relevant actors involved in such a broad-based concept. The authors suggest that Europe and the US have a lot to gain by coordinating more closely, and that the exchange of experience is crucial as we attempt to stay ahead of a learning enemy.

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Routledge

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113423824X

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9781134238248

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

Five Steps to a Better Health Care System

By: John F. Cogan,R. Glenn Hubbard,Daniel P. Kessler

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Five Steps to a Better Health Care System

By: John F. Cogan,R. Glenn Hubbard,Daniel P. Kessler

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. Poorly conceived federal tax policies, insurance regulations, and barriers to entry have distorted health-care markets and inhibited competition. John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler propose five key policies to build a better health-care system: (1) health-care tax reform, (2) insurance reform, (3) improvement of health-care information, (4) control of anticompetitive behavior, and (5) malpractice system reform. Together, these changes would harness the power of markets to deliver better health care to Americans. These reforms would strengthen consumers' ability to be cost- and value-conscious shoppers, while promoting quality and innovation in health care, pharmaceuticals, and medical technology. And, by cutting the cost of care by $60 billion per year, these reforms would make health insurance affordable for at least 6 million--and perhaps as many as 20 million--uninsured Americans.

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A E I Press

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0844771783

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9780844771786

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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

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Technological Change in Health Care

Technological Change in Health Care

Taming the Beloved Beast

Taming the Beloved Beast

Transatlantic Homeland Security

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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

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