eBook - ePub
Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System
(Even if the Answers Make You Sick)
- 162 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System
(Even if the Answers Make You Sick)
About this book
Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health care sector behaves, and a detailed analysis of "the good, the bad, and the ugly" parts of the system—from technological advances (the "good") to variations in treatment patterns (the "bad") to hidden costs and perverse incentives (the "ugly"). He shows that much of the cost of health care ultimately derives from our own lifestyle choices and thus that education may well be the most powerful form of health reform we can envision.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by John Raisian
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: How Did We Get into this Mess, and Why Will It Get Worse?
- Chapter Two: When Is Less Insurance Better than More?
- Chapter Three: How Does Good Technology Go Bad? A Tale of Two Cities (and More)
- Chapter Four: Why Is the Employer-Paid Foundation of Health Insurance Riddled with Termites?
- Chapter Five: Do Dollars Distort Doctor’s Decisions?
- Chapter Six: Why Are We All Killing Ourselves?
- Chapter Seven: Why Is Our K–12 Educational System a Public Health Menace?
- Chapter Eight: Where Does the Congress Miss Opportunities and Hit Potholes?
- References
- About the Author
- About the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Health Care Policy
- Index