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- catalog abstract ""The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told, and so it is. Barely one of five Americans thinks the medical system works well." "Enter David M. Cutler, a Harvard economist who served on President Clinton's health care task force and later advised presidential candidate Bill Bradley. One of the nation's leading experts on the subject, Cutler argues in Your Money or Your Life that health care has in fact improved exponentially over the last fifty years, and that the successes of our system suggest ways in which we might improve care, make the system easier to deal with, and extend coverage to all Americans. Cutler applies an economic analysis to show that our spending on medicine is well worth it - and that we could do even better by spending more. Further, millions of people with easily manageable diseases, from hypertension to depression to diabetes, receive either too much or too little care because of inefficiencies in the way we reimburse care, resulting in poor health and in some cases premature death."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13106815.
- catalog coverage "United States.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told, and so it is. Barely one of five Americans thinks the medical system works well." "Enter David M. Cutler, a Harvard economist who served on President Clinton's health care task force and later advised presidential candidate Bill Bradley. One of the nation's leading experts on the subject, Cutler argues in Your Money or Your Life that health care has in fact improved exponentially over the last fifty years, and that the successes of our system suggest ways in which we might improve care, make the system easier to deal with, and extend coverage to all Americans. Cutler applies an economic analysis to show that our spending on medicine is well worth it - and that we could do even better by spending more. Further, millions of people with easily manageable diseases, from hypertension to depression to diabetes, receive either too much or too little care because of inefficiencies in the way we reimburse care, resulting in poor health and in some cases premature death."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-152) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : crisis by design -- 1. The health of the nation : a history -- 2. Pricing the priceless -- 3. Success and failure at the beginning of life -- 4. The power of the pill : Prozac and the revolution in mental health care -- 5. The heart of the matter -- 6. Medical care : of what value? -- 7. You get what you pay for -- 8. The managed care debacle -- 9. Paying for health -- 10. Universal benefits -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 158 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Your money or your life.".
- catalog identifier "0195160428 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780195184099 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Your money or your life.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Your money or your life.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "2004 B-517".
- catalog subject "362.1/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Health Care Reform economics United States.".
- catalog subject "Health Care Reform economics.".
- catalog subject "Health Planning economics United States.".
- catalog subject "Health Planning economics.".
- catalog subject "Health behavior United States.".
- catalog subject "Health planning United States.".
- catalog subject "Medical care United States.".
- catalog subject "RA395.A3 C956 2004".
- catalog subject "Social Medicine United States.".
- catalog subject "Social Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Social medicine United States.".
- catalog subject "W 84 AA1 C989y 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : crisis by design -- 1. The health of the nation : a history -- 2. Pricing the priceless -- 3. Success and failure at the beginning of life -- 4. The power of the pill : Prozac and the revolution in mental health care -- 5. The heart of the matter -- 6. Medical care : of what value? -- 7. You get what you pay for -- 8. The managed care debacle -- 9. Paying for health -- 10. Universal benefits -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.".
- catalog title "Your money or your life : strong medicine for America's health care system / David M. Cutler.".
- catalog type "text".