Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 The Survivable Cost Disease -- ONE: Why Health-Care Costs Keep Rising -- TWO: What Causes the Cost Disease, and Will It Persist? -- THREE: The Future Has Arrived -- FOUR: Yes, We Can Afford It -- FIVE: Dark Sides of the Disease: Terrorism and Environmental Destruction -- SIX: Common Misunderstandings of the Cost Disease: Cost versus Quality and Financial versus "Physical" Output Measures -- SEVEN: The Cost Disease and Global Health -- PART 2 Technical Aspects of the Cost Disease -- EIGHT: Hybrid Industries and the Cost Disease -- NINE: Productivity Growth, Employment Allocation, and the Special Case of Business Services -- PART 3 Opportunities for Cutting Health-Care Costs -- TEN: Business Services in Health Care -- ELEVEN: Yes, We Can Cut Health-Care Costs Even If We Cannot Reduce Their Growth Rate -- TWELVE: Conclusions: Where Are We Headed and What Should We Do? -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.