The Cure : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care.
Title:
The Cure : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care.
Author:
Gratzer, David.
ISBN:
9781594032790
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (214 pages)
Contents:
Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- ONE - Dick Cheney's Heart -- My Heart Surgery and Dick Cheney's -- TWO - Two Days That Changed Health Care -- The Beveridge Report -- Overinsured in America -- Why Does Health Care Cost So Much? -- The Competition Problem -- THREE - Nixon's Revenge -- The Rise of HMOs -- And the Fall -- Why HMOs Failed -- FOUR - The Third Way -- Operating in the Dark (and an Alternative) -- A Step in the Right Direction -- Responding to the Critics -- Building a Market for Health Care -- FIVE - Insuring America -- What We All Know: 46 and 18 -- HillaryCare at Work -- What to Do? -- SIX - Mills' Revenge: Medicaid -- A Formula for More -- How Not to Reform Medicaid -- Getting Serious about Medicaid Reform -- SEVEN - Mills' Revenge II: Medicare -- Medicare Modernization Act -- The Four I's of Medicare -- How Not to Reform Medicare -- What Your Mailman Knows -- How to Reform Medicare -- EIGHT - Our Drug Problem -- Importing a Bad Idea -- Overinsured in America -- Ever Cautious at the FDA -- Faster Drug Approvals -- Safer Drugs -- NINE - The Hip That Changed History -- The Government Temptation -- The Best Health Care in the World (Unless You're Sick) -- My Waiting List Problem-and Ours -- British and European Health Care -- Isn't it better in a public system? -- Public Systems, Market Reforms -- TEN - The Three Keys -- Making Health Insurance Portable -- Shoring up Medicare -- Creating a Market for Medical Progress -- The Cure -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright Page.
Abstract:
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is American health care such a mess? In this path-breaking book--Nobel laureate Milton Friedman calls it "fascinating and thorough"--Dr. David Gratzer goes to the heart of the problem, showing that the crisis in American health care stems largely from its addiction to outmoded and discredited economic ideas. What needs to be done? Dr. Gratzer mounts a bold and provocative argument, rejecting the conventional wisdom that socialized health care is compassionate and that top-down government agencies like the FDA actually save lives. Instead, he prescribes a strong dose of capitalism. The Cure offers a detailed overview of American health care, from economics and politics to medical science. Weighing in on the most controversial topics in health care, Dr. Gratzer makes the case that it's possible to reduce health expenses, insure millions more, and improve quality of care while not growing government or raising taxes. An award-winning author and essayist, he is a master storyteller, enlivening his book with anecdotes, interviews, and stories drawn from his own extensive clinical experience. He details the cardiac woes of Robert E. Lee and Dick Cheney, describes a chat over coffee with Canada's foremost private medical entrepreneur (an acquaintance of Fidel Castro, as it happens), and explains the evolution of his own thinking, from advocating HillaryCare as a medical student to promoting individual choice and competition today. The patient is in critical condition; Dr. Gratzer diagnoses the disease and prescribes the cure.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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