Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: A Patient-centered Plan for Reforming America's Health Care System - Hardcover

Cogan, John F.; Hubbard, R. Glenn; Kessler, Daniel P.

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ISBN 10: 0844771783 ISBN 13: 9780844771786

Verlag: AEI Press, 2006

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Book by John F Cogan R Glenn Hubbard Daniel P Kessler

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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise clearly explains what we must do to transform health and health care in America. The authors' proposals will undoubtedly improve the quality of health care, insure more Americans, and save billions of dollars. Every policymakerin government and every decision maker in the corporations that pay for so much of America's health care should read this important book-and then act on its recommendations. -- Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

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America's health-care system is the envy of the world, but it faces serious challenges. The costs of care are rising rapidly, the number of uninsured Americans is at an all-time high, and public dissatisfaction is steadily increasing. How can we preserve the strengths of our current system while correcting its weaknesses? Three of America's leading health-care scholars answer that question in Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. Poorly conceived federal tax policies, insurance regulations, and barriers to entry have distorted health-care markets and inhibited competition. John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler propose five key policies to build a better health-care system: (1) health-care tax reform, (2) insurance reform, (3) improvement of health-care information, (4) control of anticompetitive behavior, and (5) malpractice system reform. Together, these changes would harness the power of markets to deliver better health care to Americans. These reforms would strengthen consumers' ability to be cost- and value-conscious shoppers, while promoting quality and innovation in health care, pharmaceuticals, and medical technology. And, by cutting the cost of care by $60 billion per year, these reforms would make health insurance affordable for at least 6 million-and perhaps as many as 20 million-uninsured Americans.

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• Verlag: AEI Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0844771783
• ISBN 13: 9780844771786
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150