Epidemic of Care
Subtitle: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: May 2, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780787968885
Subjects: Health systems & services; Health Policy; Health Services Accessibility; Health Care Delivery; Medical; Medical / Nursing; United States; USA; Administration; Medical / Public Health; Health Care Costs; Public Health; Health Care Reform
First sentence: Health care costs are exploding in America.
Description: "In Epidemic of Care, two of the country's leaders in health care offer a primer on health care cost drivers - and what can be done to curtail them and save the system. This hard-hitting look at a failing system reveals : why the cost of health care will cause deep cuts in the take-home pay of American workers - a 12 percent premium increase wipes out a 4 percent salary increase; how voter demands for changes in the system will bring about a political nightmare; why many smaller companies will drop health care coverage altogether, leaving millions uninsured; how our health care delivery system is really a non-system - with millions of independent, uncoordinated, and separately moving parts and its own priorities; why health care will never approach perfection until computers become exam room tools for the frontline physician; and how to cure the system in a way politically acceptable to all sides."--BOOK JACKET.