George C. Halvorson

Health Care Will Not Reform Itself (eBook, ePUB)

A User's Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written by one of the leading authorities in the industry, this book provides a basic primer on the American health care system. Using simple-to-understand language supplemented by insightful anecdotes and examples, the author cuts through the thicket of health care reform rhetoric to offer a step-by-step blueprint for achieving real improvements in health care delivery, as well as putting curbs on growing health care costs. He explains how health insurance works in the U.S. compared with the rest of the world and outlines the barriers to American reform. He also discusses why health care costs are going up so rapidly and sets realistic goals for care improvement. "George Halvorson offers a timely and compelling prescription to addressing the chronic ills of our health care system ¿ ."¿Tom Daschle, Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader"George Halvorson, CEO of the nation¿s largest health care delivery system, says reducing costs while expanding coverage not only should be done, but can be done, and tells us how ¿ ."¿Dr. James Robinson, Professor of Health Economics, UC Berkeley

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000454208
• Artikelnr.: 61916048

Autorenporträt

George Halvorson has been the chief executive officer of health plans, hospital systems, and care delivery systems in the United States for over three decades. He has also helped start health plans in Jamaica, Chile, Nigeria, Spain and Uganda.

He is the current chair of the International Federation of Health Plans and he also served as chair of the Health Governors for the 2009 World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland.

Kaiser Permanente, his current employer, is the largest not-for-profit health plan and care system in America - with over eight and a half million members, 160,000 employees and roughly forty billion dollars in annual revenue.

He is the past chair of the American Association of Health Plans and has served on the Board of Directors for the American Diabetes Associations, The Alliance of Community Health Plans, and Safest in America.

He also currently chairs the Alliance for Quality - and serves on the Commonwealth Commission for a High Performing Health System.

He is a long time proponent of health care reform - regularly writing articles and books and making presentations advocating reform. Recent books include Epidemic of Care (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco) and Health Care Reform Now! (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco).

Kaiser Permanente has been a pioneer in the use of electronic medical records and computer connectivity between patients and caregivers - successfully completing a four billion dollar project to computerize the medical information for its members and patients.

He is a husband, father of five sons, and grandfather to five wonderful grandchildren. He is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Health Care Won't Reform Itself. Why Are Health Care Costs Going Up? Set Goals and Improve Care. Connectors Are Magic. The Perfect System. We Need Universal Coverage
Care System Reform
and Care System Competition. Risk Sharing Works Quite Well
Thank You. Focus
Tools
and Better Health. Health May Be the Highest Priority. We Also Need to Set Goals to Directly Reduce Costs.