Fresh medicine
Subtitle: how to fix reform and build a sustainable health care system
By: Philip Bredesen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780802119384
Subjects: Medical care; Medical policy; Health care reform
Description: Bredesen delivers a concise, intelligent analysis of what the reform is, how it is flawed, and why we have to fix it.
Table of contents: title: A contrarian view --; title: What's wrong with reform --; title: The roots of America's health care system --; title: Health "insurance" --; title: Moving forward --; title: Stepping-stone one : dignified, fair, and universal --; title: Stepping-stone two : why health care is so expensive --; title: Stepping-stone three : managing hypercomplexity --; title: Stepping-stone four : quality --; title: Stepping-stone five : systems of care --; title: Stepping-stone six : paying for health care --; title: Putting it all together --; title: Twenty years later.