A second opinion
Subtitle: how to prevent the collapse of America's healthcare
By: Arnold S. Relman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781586484811
Subjects: Health care reform -- United States; Health Care Reform -- United States
Description: Physician and patient advocate Arnold Relman discusses health care in the United States; addressing the commercialization of medicine, the consequences of commercialized care, and "consumer-driven" health care; and provides suggestions for reform and commentary on what can be learned from other countries.
Notes: "A Century Foundation book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The commercialization of U.S. medicine; title: Consequences of commercialized care; title: The revolt of the payers; title: Consumer-driven health care: the new new thing; title: The reform we need and why; title: Can we get there? do we want to?; title: Lessons from Canada; title: An open letter to the medical profession.