Care and Cost: Current Issues in Health Policy

ISBN-13: 9780367012250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Meyer, Jack A.

Opis

 America’s ability to deliver quality health care efficiently to its citizens is both an important component of national productivity and a hallmark of a civilized society. Recognizing the critical need to reform and restructure the way the public and the private sectors provide health care, CED trustees launched a study of how market-oriented pol

Spis treści

Foreword -- Containing Health Care Cost Escalation and Improving Access to Services: The Search for a Solution -- Adopting Market Incentives in Public-Sector Policies -- Catastrophic and Long-Term Care -- Rationing Access to Advanced Medical Techniques -- Problems and Prospects in Financing Long-Term Care -- Improving the Role of Private Markets in Financing Long-Term Care Services -- Practitioner Issues -- Market Incentives and the Costs of Medical Malpractice -- Medical Research and Teaching in a Market-Driven Health Care System -- Stimulating Product Innovation and Reforming the Health Care Reimbursement System -- Workplace Issues -- What Employers Can Do About Medical Care Costs: Managing Health and Productivity -- Incentives for Reducing the Costs of Disability

O autorze

Kenneth McLennan, (editor), is president and chief executive officer of the Machinery and Allied Products Institute, a policy research institute whose members represent a broad spectrum of companies from the manufacturing, communications, and transportation industries. Jack A. Meyer, (editor), is founder and president of New Directions For Policy, a research and policy organization that develops, analyzes, and evaluates social policies for government, business and the foundation community.