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Flatlined : resuscitating American medicine / Guy L. Clifton.

By: Clifton, Guy L, 1949-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-311) and index.Description: xx, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780813544281 (alk. paper); 0813544289 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Health care reform -- United States | Medical policy -- United States | Medical economics -- United States | Emergency medical services -- Administration -- United States | Hospitals -- United States | Health insurance -- United StatesDDC classification: 362.10973
Contents:
Not business as usual -- Unreliable emergency services -- An eroding infrastructure -- Fifteen years lost -- Handed health care's leftovers -- Where we are headed -- Thirty percent waste-or fifty? -- Poor quality primary care -- Dangerous hospitals -- Violation of dignity: the end of life -- Unnecessary surgery -- Perverse payment incentives -- Three pathways to hospital profitability -- Pharmaceuticals: remarkable innovation, shameless puffery -- Private health insurance: no added value -- The end of the employer-based tax subsidy -- No coverage expansion without cost control -- A workable plan for reform -- Establishing standards -- Prioritizing primary care -- Reducing spending on hospitals and specialists -- Positioning of a national medical quality system.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-311) and index.

Not business as usual -- Unreliable emergency services -- An eroding infrastructure -- Fifteen years lost -- Handed health care's leftovers -- Where we are headed -- Thirty percent waste-or fifty? -- Poor quality primary care -- Dangerous hospitals -- Violation of dignity: the end of life -- Unnecessary surgery -- Perverse payment incentives -- Three pathways to hospital profitability -- Pharmaceuticals: remarkable innovation, shameless puffery -- Private health insurance: no added value -- The end of the employer-based tax subsidy -- No coverage expansion without cost control -- A workable plan for reform -- Establishing standards -- Prioritizing primary care -- Reducing spending on hospitals and specialists -- Positioning of a national medical quality system.

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