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The Quality Cure: How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too
David Cutler
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Description for The Quality Cure: How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too
Paperback. Series: Wildavsky Forum Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 33 line illustrations, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCQ; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality Cure, renowned health care economist and former Obama advisor David Cutler offers an accessible and incisive account of the issues and their causes, as well as a road map for the future of health care reform--one that shows how information technology, realigned payment systems, and value-focused organizations together have the ... Read more
In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality Cure, renowned health care economist and former Obama advisor David Cutler offers an accessible and incisive account of the issues and their causes, as well as a road map for the future of health care reform--one that shows how information technology, realigned payment systems, and value-focused organizations together have the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Wildavsky Forum Series
Condition
New
Weight
282g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520282001
SKU
V9780520282001
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99-30
About David Cutler
A former senior health care advisor to President Barack Obama, David Cutler is Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University and holds joint appointments in the Economics Department at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author of Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System. ... Read more
Reviews for The Quality Cure: How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too
"Cutler has an exceptional ability to tackle an extremely complex topic, such as US health care spending, and make it simple and understandable for noneconomists while remaining true to the theory and science... The Quality Cure should be required reading for those who manage or provide care. In particular, medical students and residents need to understand the ideas in this ... Read more