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An American Sickness

Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698407180
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book An American Sickness written by Elisabeth Rosenthal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.

Health Care Market Strategy

Author : Steven G. Hillestad
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284181618
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Health Care Market Strategy written by Steven G. Hillestad and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Care Market Strategy: From Planning to Action, Fifth Edition, a standard reference for nearly 20 years, bridges the gap between marketing theory and implementation by showing you, step-by-step, how to develop and execute successful marketing strategies using appropriate tactics. Put the concepts you learned in introductory marketing courses into action using the authors’ own unique model—called the strategy/action match—from which you will learn how to determine exactly which tactics to employ in a variety of settings.

Market-Based Health Care

Author : Grace Budrys
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538128373
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Market-Based Health Care written by Grace Budrys and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market-Based Health Care defines for students the challenges, arguments and politics behind the concept of consumer-driven health care including what it would look like if the business sector would do a better job of organizing our health care arrangements and remove any governmental components built into the system. As a sociologist interested in health care, Budrys focuses on the impact our health care arrangements have on not just an economic level but how they affect people as well. This is an overwhelmingly complex topic and debate and one that is discussed widely in the classroom. This will be the first text to clearly present the market-based health care model and how doctors, medical insurance and “big pharma” play a role in its development.

Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets

Author : Martin Gaynor
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
ISBN 13 : 1601980078
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets written by Martin Gaynor and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an economic assessment of the impact of competition on quality in health care markets. This book offers performance standards for competition; findings from economic theory; and, empirical evidence on health care competition and quality.

Health Care Market Strategy

Author : Steven G. Hillestad
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0763789283
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)

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Book Synopsis Health Care Market Strategy by : Steven G. Hillestad

Download or read book Health Care Market Strategy written by Steven G. Hillestad and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Care Market Strategy: From Planning to Action, Fourth Edition, a standard reference for over 15 years, bridges the gap between marketing theory and implementation by showing you, step-by-step, how to develop and execute successful marketing strategies using appropriate tactics. Put the concepts you learned in introductory marketing courses into action using the authors' own unique model--called the strategy/action match--from which you will learn how to determine exactly which tactics to employ in a variety of settings. In this new edition, you'll also discover the latest practical applications for strategy development, the marketing planning process, challenges of a competitive marketplace, vision, and other critical aspects of health care marketing. The Fourth Edition also examines new health care delivery models, increasing competition, foreign competitors, and health care reform. Students will come away with a clear understanding of the link between the board room and its connection to tactics in the marketing division. The authors provide models and methods to help organizations discuss and create clear and precise visions for their organizations. The new edition also includes expanded Appendices that present a clear picture of what a typical market plan should look like.

The Price We Pay

Author : Marty Makary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635574129
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Price We Pay written by Marty Makary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller Business Book of the Year--Association of Business Journalists From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author. "A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable. The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.

Handbook of Health Economics

Author : Mark V. Pauly
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444535926
Total Pages : 1149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Health Economics written by Mark V. Pauly and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 1149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a relatively new subdiscipline of economics, health economics has made many contributions to areas of the main discipline, such as insurance economics. This volume provides a survey of the burgeoning literature on the subject of health economics." {source : site de l'éditeur].

Markets and Health Care

Author : Wendy Ranade
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317888227
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Markets and Health Care written by Wendy Ranade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing reliance on market disciplines and incentives characterised health care reform strategies in many countries in the 1990s, yet the country which relies most heavily on private health care - the U.S.A. - is the most expensive in the world and still fails to deliver affordable health care to millions of its citizens. This apparent paradox is the starting point for Markets and Health Care: A Comparative Analysis.

Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing and Premium Regulation in Health Insurance Markets

Author : Thomas G. McGuire
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 012811326X
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing and Premium Regulation in Health Insurance Markets written by Thomas G. McGuire and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing and Premium Regulation in Health Insurance Markets: Theory and Practice describes the goals, design and evaluation of health plan payment systems. Part I contains 5 chapters discussing the role of health plan payment in regulated health insurance markets, key aspects of payment design (i.e. risk adjustment, risk sharing and premium regulation), and evaluation methods using administrative data on medical spending. Part II contains 14 chapters describing the health plan payment system in 14 countries and sectors around the world, including Australia, Belgium, Chile, China, Columbia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland and the United States. Authors discuss the evolution of these payment schemes, along with ongoing reforms and key lessons on the design of health plan payment. Provides a conceptual toolkit that describes the goals, design and evaluation of health plan payment systems in the context of policy paradigms, such as efficiency, affordability, fairness and avoidance of risk selection Brings together international experience from many different countries that apply regulated competition in different ways Delivers a practical toolkit for the evaluation of health plan payment modalities from the standpoint of efficiency and fairness

The Economics of U.S. Health Care Policy: The Role of Market Forces

Author : Frank W. Musgrave
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317457242
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Economics of U.S. Health Care Policy: The Role of Market Forces written by Frank W. Musgrave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a primary text for courses in health care economics and policy analysis, this comprehensive work places the issues and economic analysis of the health care industry in the context of market forces driving the industry, including negotiated markets, managed care, and the growing influence of oligopolies. Written in accessible prose, without the aid of technical jargon and mathematical formulations, the content is rich with applicable, understandable economic concepts and analysis, and examples of market failure and government involvement. Some of the major policy issues covered are drug pricing, Medicare and Medicaid reform, the medically uninsured, for-profit hospital monopoly price power, managed care competitive pricing, and new negotiated markets. The relevant economic concepts employed in the text include price elasticity of demand/supply, market structure from competitive to oligopolistic markets, monopoly pricing power, measures of health care inflation and the biases of the CPI, demand and supply factors, inverse relationship of present health care expenditures as a percentage of GDP, measures/concepts of efficiency, and the role of government in a market era.

For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309036437
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

Markets vs Public Health Systems

Author : Łukasz Jasiński
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000538257
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Markets vs Public Health Systems written by Łukasz Jasiński and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems related to the functioning of public healthcare systems encourage the search for alternative solutions, for example to ensure improved access to medical services. However, these proposals also require appropriate theoretical support to better present and apply them. This book draws on Austrian Economics to provide a theoretical framework to support greater involvement of the private sector to improve inefficiencies in public healthcare. The Austrian School of Economics has a solid theoretical output describing and explaining the functioning of many aspects of the market economy (e.g. money, prices, interest rate, or capital). This work applies those principles to a market-based healthcare system and its individual elements, including health insurance. The study in these chapters is divided into two parts. The first part contains the theoretical aspects of the functioning of a complete market system. Particular importance is placed on presenting health insurance as a market institution and exploring its role in the market system. This examination also includes an analysis of alternative forms of financing access to medical services, such as direct payments, medical savings accounts, medical subscriptions, and charity. Additionally, solid counterarguments are provided for so-called market failures: asymmetric information, public goods, and monopolies. The second part of the book explores the theoretical aspects of interventionism and the functioning of public systems, and aims to better highlight the sources of the associated problems. This work provides an important contribution to the literature on health economics, healthcare management and policy, and Austrian Economics more broadly. It is essential reading for health economists and those holding key public positions related to healthcare. Winner of the Award of the President of the Lublin Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences for Humanities and Social Sciences for books published in 2021

Sick to Debt

Author : Peter A. Ubel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300249195
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Sick to Debt written by Peter A. Ubel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informed argument for reworking the broken market†‘based U.S. healthcare system by making cost and quality more transparent The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high†‘deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amounts out of pocket before insurance kicks in. The idea behind this shift is that patients will become better consumers of healthcare when forced to pay for their medical expenses. Laying bare the perils of the current situation, Peter A. Ubel—a physician and behavioral scientist—notes that even when patients have time to shop around, healthcare costs remain largely opaque, difficult to access, and hard to compare. Arguing for a middle path between a market†‘based and a completely free system, Ubel envisions more transparent, smarter healthcare plans that tie the prices of treatments to the value they provide so that people can afford to receive the care they deserve.

Healthy Markets?

Author : Mark A. Peterson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321385
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Healthy Markets? written by Mark A. Peterson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the various implications of the new managed-care health care systems.

Market Vs. Medicine

Author : David W Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692763827
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Market Vs. Medicine written by David W Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. healthcare is too expensive, asset-heavy and tolerant of excessive performance variation. It is over-invested in acute/specialty care and under-invested in prevention, primary care, behavioral health and chronic disease management. It makes too many mistakes and refuses to learn from them. Our long-term quality of life, standard of living and social mobility depend on converting America's "sickcare" system into a true healthcare system. Strong incumbents dominate an expensive and fragmented system that is financially unsustainable, delivers mediocre health outcomes and fails to address the root causes of America's chronic disease epidemic. This medical empire is fighting to maintain the status quo and its vested interests. Its day of reckoning has come. New competitors and business models are emerging to challenge entrenched, inefficient and ineffective business practices. They're relentless. They fight to win customers every day by delivering better, more convenient and more affordable healthcare services. Market vs. Medicine goes beyond diagnosis to consider how sustaining and disruptive innovation will make U.S. healthcare better at diagnosing and treating illness while developing care management capabilities that promote prevention, behavioral health and chronic disease management. In the epic battle underway, market-driven reform, more than regulatory change, will transform and improve America's broken healthcare system. The marketplace will differentiate winners and losers. Value rules.

The Changing Health Care Marketplace

Author : Walter A. Zelman
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Health Care Marketplace written by Walter A. Zelman and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996-05-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Rise of Managed Care An incisive and informative analysis of our rapidly changing health care system--the best of current books on the subject. --Arnold S. Relman, former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine Walter A. Zelman, a leading expert on health care research and policy, examines the key trAnds that are changing today's health care marketplace. He looks at the growth of managed care; the new and sometimes uneasy partnerships among physicians, hospitals, and health plans; and the trAnd toward integration between sectors. This important resource draws on the latest data and research, including more than fifty interviews with expert analysts and practitioners.

Reforming the Health Care Market

Author : David F. Drake
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589018662
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Reforming the Health Care Market written by David F. Drake and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the health care market in a historical framework, Drake analyzes the forces and events that have shaped American health care in the twentieth century and sheds new light on why and how our health care system has dampened competitive market forces and failed to provide sound value for much of our health care expenditures. He examines the roles that physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, businesses, individual consumers, and government legislation have played in creating a provider-dominated market in which the cost of care has been concealed from consumers. Comparing U.S. health care expenditures with those of other developed countries, he concludes that a significant part of our health care problem is the style of medicine practiced in the United States, which is much more specialized and high tech than in other developed nations. Drake develops proposals for health care financing reform that consider the political and economic difficulties involved. He first examines the Clinton health care reform plan and makes specific recommendations for revisions that would improve its likelihood of controlling costs. He then offers an alternative proposal that would both maintain the principle of universal, noncancelable coverage and eliminate the flaws in the market for health care services by giving consumers a financial stake in cost containment. This timely argument, combining economic and historical analysis with thoughtful consideration of the motivating humanitarian and political concerns, will be of interest to everyone seeking to understand and to reform our ailing health care system.