Healthy, wealthy, and wise
Subtitle: 5 steps to a better health care system
By: John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler
Contributors: Hubbard, R. Glenn; Kessler, Daniel P.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Hoover Institution Press publication -- no. 582; Hoover Institution Press publication -- no. 582.
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press; AEI Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780817910648
Subjects: Finance; Medical economics; Health services accessibility; Cost of Medical care; Health insurance; Health care reform; Tax credits; Medical care; Medical policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-146) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The challenge: obtaining high-quality, affordable health care. The good : innovation ; The bad : high costs and and a large uninsured population ; The ugly : backlash against markets and the misguided policy response; title: 2. Five policy reforms to make markets work. Increase individual involvement in health care decisions ; Deregulate insurance markets and redesign Medicare and Medicaid ; Expand provision of health information ; Control anticompetitive behavior ; Reform the malpractice system ; Study the tax preference for nonprofits; title: 3. Impacts of proposals on health care spending, the uninsured, the federal budget, and the distribution of tax burdens. Effects of reforms on health care spending ; Effects of reforms on the number of uninsured ; Effects of reforms on the federal budget ; Distributional impact; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix A. Estimating the impact of policy reforms on health care spending; title: Appendix B. Estimating the impact of policy reforms on uninsurance; title: Appendix C. Derivation of the elasticity of total health care spending with respect to the after-tax price of out-of-pocket spending; title: Appendix D. Estimating the impact of policy reforms on the federal budget.