George C. Halvorson

Health Care Reform Now!

A Prescription for Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The United States spends more money on health care by far than any other country and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year.

Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system.

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"We don't really have a health care delivery system in this country. We have an expensive plethora of uncoordinated, unlinked, economically segregated, operationally limited micro systems, each performing in ways that too often create suboptimal performance both for the overall health care infrastructure and for individual patients." -from the Introduction

Praise for Health Care Reform Now!

"George Halvorson convincingly argues that the United States finally has what it needs to make universal coverage a reality and lays out a plan to get us there. It should be required reading on Capitol Hill." -Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA), chairman, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee

"George Halvorson's timing couldn't be better. This is a book that everyone who is searching for solutions should read." -Helen Darling, president, National Business Group on Health

"Halvorson's comprehensive approach, rooted in a practical understanding of the complexities of American health care, helps us focus on what matters." -Ian Morrison, Ph.D., health care futurist and author, Health Care in the New Millennium

"This book is powerful and compelling. It's just the right book for this time." -Jeffrey C. McGuiness, president, HR Policy Association

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 161mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780787997526
• ISBN-10: 0787997528
• Artikelnr.: 22725731

Autorenporträt

George Halvorson, is chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, Oakland, California. He was president and CEO of HealthPartners in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the coauthor of Epidemic of Care and author of Strong Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
The Author.
1. A Few Hard but Useful Truths.
2. Data: The Missing Link for Health Care Reform.
3. What Do We Do Until the E mr Arrives?
4. Basic Steps to Improve Care for Chronic Disease Patients.
5. Eight Developments That Finally Make Health Care Reform Possible.
6. Making the Market Work for Health Care.
7. A New Idea: The Infrastructure Vendor.
8. Who Should We Hire to Reform Our Health Care Infrastructure?
9. Next Steps and Expectations.
10. Cost Shift Realities.
11. Universal Coverage Now!
12. So What Should We Do Now?
Notes.

Rezensionen

"A management guru, Halvorson shows how the same principles Wal-Mart and Target use to lower consumer costs can be applied to health care." (www.outrageoustimes.com, 09/12/2007)

"He sets out one possible direction for health care reform." (BookNews, Feb 2008)

"...rich in insights and suggestions that make them compelling reading for anyone seriously concerned about U.S. Health Reform." (Health Affairs, Jan/Feb, 2008)

"This is a very readable book on the current status of reform possibilities facing the US health care system." (JAMA, Feb 2008)

"A management guru, Halvorson shows how the same principles Wal-Mart and Target use to lower consumer costs can be applied to health care." (www.outrageoustimes.com, 09/12/2007)