Your money or your life : strong medicine for America's health care system

The Resource Your money or your life : strong medicine for America's health care system
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Your money or your life : strong medicine for America's health care system
Title remainder
strong medicine for America's health care system
Statement of responsibility
David M. Cutler
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told, and so it is. Barely one of five Americans thinks the medical system works well." "Enter David M. Cutler, a Harvard economist who served on President Clinton's health care task force and later advised presidential candidate Bill Bradley. One of the nation's leading experts on the subject, Cutler argues in Your Money or Your Life that health care has in fact improved exponentially over the last fifty years, and that the successes of our system suggest ways in which we might improve care, make the system easier to deal with, and extend coverage to all Americans. Cutler applies an economic analysis to show that our spending on medicine is well worth it - and that we could do even better by spending more. Further, millions of people with easily manageable diseases, from hypertension to depression to diabetes, receive either too much or too little care because of inefficiencies in the way we reimburse care, resulting in poor health and in some cases premature death."--Jacket
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
362.1/0973
Index
index present
LC call number
RA395.A3
LC item number
C956 2004
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2004 B-517
  • W 84 AA1
NLM item number
C989y 2004

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