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Your money or your life : strong medicine for America's health care system / David M. Cutler.

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Your money or your life : strong medicine for America's health care system / David M. Cutler.

Author

Cutler, David M.

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xiv, 158 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told, and so it is. Barely one of five Americans thinks the medical system works well." "Enter David M. Cutler, a Harvard economist who served on President Clinton's health care task force and later advised presidential candidate Bill Bradley. One of the nation's leading experts on the subject, Cutler argues in Your Money or Your Life that health care has in fact improved exponentially over the last fifty years, and that the successes of our system suggest ways in which we might improve care, make the system easier to deal with, and extend coverage to all Americans. Cutler applies an economic analysis to show that our spending on medicine is well worth it - and that we could do even better by spending more. Further, millions of people with easily manageable diseases, from hypertension to depression to diabetes, receive either too much or too little care because of inefficiencies in the way we reimburse care, resulting in poor health and in some cases premature death."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

0195160428 (acid-free paper)
0195181328 (pbk.)
9780195160420 (acid-free paper)
9780195181326 (pbk.)

LCCN

2003050673

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Columbia University Libraries