Flatlined : : Resuscitating American Medicine
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Not business as usual -- Unreliable emergency services -- An eroding infrastructure -- Fifteen years lost -- Handed health care's leftovers -- Where we are headed -- Thirty percent waste-or fifty? -- Poor quality primary care -- Dangerous hospitals -- Violation of dignity: the end of life -- Unnecessary surgery -- Perverse payment incentives -- Three pathways to hospital profitability -- Pharmaceuticals: remarkable innovation, shameless puffery -- Private health insurance: no added value -- The end of the employer-based tax subsidy -- No coverage expansion without cost control -- A workable plan for reform -- Establishing standards -- Prioritizing primary care -- Reducing spending on hospitals and specialists -- Positioning of a national medical quality system.
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PUBLISHED
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xx, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780813544281
0813544289
SUBJECTS
Health care reform.
Medical policy.