Flatlined
Subtitle: resuscitating American medicine
By: Guy L. Clifton.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780813544281
Subjects: Health care reform -- United States; Medical policy -- United States; Health Care Reform -- United States; Economics, Medical -- trends -- United States; Emergency Medical Services -- organization & administration -- United States; Hospitals -- trends -- United States; Insurance, Health -- trends -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Not business as usual; title: Unreliable emergency services; title: An eroding infrastructure; title: Fifteen years lost; title: Handed health care's leftovers; title: Where we are headed; title: Thirty percent waste-or fifty?; title: Poor quality primary care; title: Dangerous hospitals; title: Violation of dignity: the end of life; title: Unnecessary surgery; title: Perverse payment incentives; title: Three pathways to hospital profitability; title: Pharmaceuticals: remarkable innovation, shameless puffery; title: Private health insurance: no added value; title: The end of the employer-based tax subsidy; title: No coverage expansion without cost control; title: A workable plan for reform; title: Establishing standards; title: Prioritizing primary care; title: Reducing spending on hospitals and specialists; title: Positioning of a national medical quality system.