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RX for Health Care Reform by Ken Terry; Paul B. Ginsburg is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is RX for Health Care Reform about?

In this readable and well-researched book, Ken Terry analyzes the current state of health care reform and finds it wanting. Instead of tackling the core problems in our failing system, he argues, politicians, insurance executives, and health care leaders have embraced ideologically driven initiatives that pursue impractical objectives or will take too long to bear fruit. Among these are such widely hailed trends as disease management, pay for performance, cost and price itransparency, i consumer-directed care, and health information technology, none of which will reverse the rising tide of health spending. What is creating this nightmare scenario, according to Terry, is the sheer profitability of the health care industry. Insurers, physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and device manufacturers are all striving to maximize their profits, and there is no effective competition or regulation to restrain them. Only a complete overhaul of our system for financing and delivering health care can get us out of this mess, the author maintains. In the second half of his book, he presents a bold vision of how to do this: First, he says, all primary care physicians should join group

Who reads RX for Health Care Reform?

Author

Ken Terry; Paul B. Ginsburg

Publisher

Vanderbilt University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826592323

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Health & Fitness, Political Science