Who has the cure?
Subtitle: Hamilton Project ideas on health care
By: Jason Furman, editor.
Contributors: Furman, Jason.; Hamilton Project.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780815730088; 9780815730095
Subjects: Right to health care -- United States; Health services accessibility -- United States; Health insurance -- United States; National health insurance -- United States; Health care reform -- United States; National Health Insurance, United States -- United States; Universal Coverage -- United States
Description: "Emphasizes the importance of universal health care and looks at alternatives for achieving universal health care coverage that also improves efficiency in the health care industry and provides proposals to improve the effectiveness and affordability of health care, including income-related cost-sharing, expanding preventive care, and reforming Medicare's prescription drug benefit"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Health strategy universal, effective and affordable health insurance : an economic imperative / Jason Furman and Robert E. Rubin; title: Achieving universal coverage through Medicare part E(veryone) / Gerard F. Anderson and Hugh R. Waters; title: Evolving beyond traditional employer-sponsored health insurance / Stuart M. Butler; title: A comprehensive cure : the guaranteed health care access plan-A voucher-style reform / Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs; title: Taking Massachusetts national : incremental universalism for the United States / Jonathan Gruber; title: Mending the Medicare prescription drug benefit : improving consumer choices and restructuring purchasing / Richard G. Frank and Joseph P. Newhouse; title: The promise of progressive cost consciousness in health care reform / Jason Furman; title: A wellness trust to prioritize disease prevention / Jeanne M. Lambrew.