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“robert i field”

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  • Health Care Regulation in America

    Complexity, Confrontation, and Compromise

    by Robert I. Field ...
    Regulation shapes all aspects of America's fragmented health care industry, from the flow of dollars to the communication between physicians and patients. It is the engine that translates public policy into action. While the health and lives of patients, as well as almost one-sixth of the national economy depend on its effectiveness, health care regulation in America is bewilderingly complex. ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Mother of Invention

    How the Government Created "Free-Market" Health Care

    by Robert I. Field ...
    By relying on private enterprise more than any other developed nation, American health care has all the appearances of the free-market in action. And for more than a hundred years, attempts to reform this system (including President Obama's Affordable Care Act) have been met with opposition from parties warning against the stifling effect of government intervention. What these warnings about ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Mother of Invention

    How the Government Created "Free-Market" Health Care

    by Robert I. Field ...
    By relying on private enterprise more than any other developed nation, American health care has all the appearances of the free-market in action. And for more than a hundred years, attempts to reform this system (including President Obama's Affordable Care Act) have been met with opposition from parties warning against the stifling effect of government intervention. What these warnings about ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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    by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Lillian Gomory Wu ...
    The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a ... Read more

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  • The Truth About Getting Sick in America

    The Real Problems with Health Care and What We Can Do

    by Tim Johnson ...
    In today’s world, there are many hot-button topics that generate equal parts debate and confusion. At the top of that list is healthcare. For most Americans, finding out “the truth” about current problems or possible fixes is virtually impossible amidst all the emotionally charged rhetoric. Dr. Tim Johnson has been reporting on health matters for ABC since the mid-seventies, but in recent years he ... Read more

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  • Introduction To Health Economics

    by Lorna Guinness, Virginia Wiseman ...
    This practical text offers the ideal introduction to the economic techniques used in public health. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Reinventing American Health Care

    How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

    by Ezekiel J. Emanuel ...
    The definitive story of American health care today -- its causes, consequences, and confusions.In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Catastrophic Care

    How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

    by David Goldhill ...
    A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

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  • The American Health Care Paradox

    Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

    by Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A Taylor ...
    Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Read more

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  • Principles of Hospital Administration And Management

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    by Ravi Bindra ...
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    Hospitals were once charitable services; now they have become profitable industries. Once their users were the poor; now every hospital manager seeks the largest number of payers. Once the employees presumed that their rewards would come in Heaven; now they earn high incomes and have jobs rather than callings. ... Read more

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  • Healthcare Investing: Profiting from the New World of Pharma, Biotech, and Health Care Services

    by Les Funtleyder ...
    Is your portfolio in peak health?Ranking among the world's largest markets, the $2.5 trillion health care industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. According to Miller Tabak + Co.'s health care strategist Les Funtleyder, major structural renovations to the system are imminent. “Health care is entering an era of reform,” Funtleyder writes, “and with reform comes change and the opportunity for ... Read more

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  • Landmark

    The Inside Story of America's New Health-Care Law-The Affordable Care Act-and What It Means for Us All

    by Staff of the Washington Post ...
    The Washington Post**'s must-read guide to the health care overhaulWhat now? Despite the rancorous, divisive, year-long debate in Washington, many Americans still don't understand what the historic overhaul of the health care system will -- or won't -- mean. In Landmark, the national reporting staff of The Washington Post pierces through the confusion, examining the new law's likely impact on us ... Read more

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