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Epidemic of Care : A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care

Epidemic of Care : A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition

by George C. Halvorson; George J. Isham

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Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Epidemic of Care : A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care
  • Author George C. Halvorson; George J. Isham
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0787968889I4N00
  • ISBN 9780787968885 / 0787968889
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.31 x 6.26 x 1.01 in (23.65 x 15.90 x 2.57 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Insurance, Health - economics - United States, Health care reform - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003002583
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.104

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First line

Health care costs are exploding in America.

From the jacket flap

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 population will become a real political issue rather than just the subject of energetic rhetoric. It is time to recognize that we are moving into a major health care crisis in this country, a crisis driven by the way we deliver, receive, and pay for care.

"Epidemic of Care" offers a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the cost crisis, how the crisis will escalate, and what can be done to improve the situation. A blueprint for getting to a coherent national health policy, 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 can succeed no matter who rules Congress. Authors George C. Halvorson and George J. Isham, M.D.-- two individuals who have made an impressive impact on the national health care scene-- provide some practical, field-tested, sometimes controversial suggestions about how to make health care in this country more accountable, more efficient, more valuable, and more affordable.

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About the author

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 director and chief health officer for HealthPartners. He is a founding board member of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement in Minnesota and has been a national leader in quality improvement methods.