Curing Medicare
Subtitle: a doctor's view on how our health care system is failing older Americans and how we can fix it
By: Andy Lazris, MD ; with a foreword by Shannon Brownlee
Edition: Revised edition.
Series: The culture and politics of health care work; Culture and politics of health care work
Publisher: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781501702778
Subjects: Medical care; Geriatrics; Medicare; Older people
Description: Maintains that the current Medicare payment structure favors aggressive care that can negatively impact quality of life over palliative and home care which often yields better results, and argues for cost-effective changes that can make Medicare more humane.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : my boss; title: Defining quality : the quest for numerical perfection; title: Defining thorough : finding and fixing everything; title: Excessive specialization, expectation, and litigation; title: Hospitalization : the pinnacle of thorough; title: Long term care : the unwitting geriatric ICU; title: Quality and value : moving toward a cure; title: Afterword : redefining thorough.