Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

Synopsis

Cover; Contents; Foreword By Paul Krugman; Foreword By Senator William H. Frist, Md; Prologue; Introduction; I. A Visual Stroll Through America's Health Care Wonderland; 1. U.s. Health Spending And What Drives It; 2. Pricing Americans Out Of Health Care; 3. Some Interesting Or Curious Facts About Our Health Care System; 4. Who Actually Pays For Health Care?; 5. Value For The Money Spent On U.s. Health Care; Ii. Ethical Perspectives On U.s. Health Care; 6. The Social Role Of Health Care; 7. The Mechanics Of Commercial Health Insurance From An Ethical Perspective 8. The Elephant In The Room And The Ethical Vision Baked Into Health Reform Proposals9. The Ethical Vision Of The Affordable Care Act Of 2010 (obamacare); 10. The Ethical Vision Of The Health Reform Proposals Of 2017; Conclusion: A Novel (my Own) Reform Proposal; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index Uwe E. Reinhardt ; Forewords By Paul Krugman And Sen. William H. Frist. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.