Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care
George C. Halvorson
€ 60.05
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care
Hardcover. Provides some suggestions about how to make health care in US more accountable, more efficient, more valuable, and more affordable. This book calls for a collaboration between different parts of the private sector, state and local governments, and, at times, the federal government with a formula that aims to succeed. Num Pages: 304 pages, index, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 506.
Health care premiums in the U.S. are escalating from twelve to twenty percent a year— with no end in sight. The impact of those cost increases on both employers and employees will be huge. Workers will see a direct cut in their take-home pay. Millions will lose health insurance coverage completely. Senior citizens on fixed incomes will be hit particularly hard, as premiums for their Medicare supplement plans and prescription drug costs climb. Frustrated and angry, people will soon be demanding a solution from their elected officials, and, for the first time in recent memory, the size of our unemployed ... Read more
Health care premiums in the U.S. are escalating from twelve to twenty percent a year— with no end in sight. The impact of those cost increases on both employers and employees will be huge. Workers will see a direct cut in their take-home pay. Millions will lose health insurance coverage completely. Senior citizens on fixed incomes will be hit particularly hard, as premiums for their Medicare supplement plans and prescription drug costs climb. Frustrated and angry, people will soon be demanding a solution from their elected officials, and, for the first time in recent memory, the size of our unemployed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787968885
SKU
V9780787968885
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About George C. Halvorson
George C. Halvorson is chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, America's leading integrated health care organization. He was formerly president and CEO of HealthPartners in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has helped start HMOs in countries around the world. Halvorson has written several books on health care topics, including the highly-praised Strong Medicine (1993). George J. Isham, M.D., is medical ... Read more
Reviews for Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care
“ This well-written book describes…in great depth the many problems that health care in the United States encounter…” (International Journal of Integrated Care, 2 August 2004) "...one of the more lucid explanations of what is going on in US health care...the authors are well qualified to do the explaining..." (British Medical Journal, 12 July 2003) "There is ... Read more