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Your Money or Your Life : Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System

ISBN: 9780195181326 | 0195181328
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/10/2005

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 in 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 lea... MORE
Introduction: Crisis by Designix
1 The Health of the Nation: A History
1(9)
2 Pricing the Priceless
10(12)
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3 Success and Failure at the Beginning of Life
22(10)
4 The Power of the Pill: Prozac and the Revolution in Mental Health Care
32(15)
5 The Heart of the Matter
47(14)
6 Medical Care: Of What Value?
61(15)
7 You Get What You Pay For
76(10)
8 The Managed Care Debacle
86(14)
9 Paying for Health
100(14)
10 Universal Benefits114(11)
Notes125(28)
Acknowledgements153(2)
Index155

David M. Cutler is a professor of economics at Harvard University. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and regular advisor to governments and corporations.

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