Dranove Code Red

An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2962-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, EPUB

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality.


Dranove offers pragmatic remedies, some of them controversial, all of them crucially needed to restore the system to vitality. He pays special attention to the plight of the uninsured, and proposes a new direction that promises to make premier healthcare for all Americans a national reality. Setting his story against the backdrop of healthcare in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present day, he reveals why a century of private and public sector efforts to reform the ailing system have largely failed. He draws on insights from economics to diagnose the root causes of rising costs and diminishing access to quality care, such as inadequate information, perverse incentives, and malfunctioning insurance markets. Dranove describes the ongoing efforts to revive the system--including the rise of consumerism, the quality movement, and initiatives to expand access--and argues that these efforts are doomed to fail without more fundamental, systemic, market-based reforms. Code Red lays the foundation for a thriving healthcare system and is indispensable for anyone trying to make sense of the thorny issues of healthcare reform.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dranove, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

PART 1: DIAGNOSING THE CONDITION 1

Introduction 3

Chapter One: An Accidental Healthcare System 8

Chapter Two: Paging Doctor Welby 30

Chapter Three: Therapy for an Ailing Health Economy 58

Chapter Four: The Managed Care Prescription 83

PART 2: SEARCHING FOR CURES 119

Chapter Five: Self-Help 121

Chapter Six: The Quality Revolution 147

Chapter Seven: Mending the Safety Net 176

Chapter Eight: Reviving the American Healthcare System 205

Appendix: An Alphabet Soup of Healthcare Acronyms 235

Notes 239

Bibliography 255

Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

David Dranove is the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. His books include What's Your Life Worth? and The Economic Evolution of American Health Care (Princeton).