Rx for health care reform / Ken Terry ; foreword by Paul B. Ginsburg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How we got into this mess -- 'Round and 'round on the reform carousel -- The two faces of disease management -- Paying for performance -- EHRs: necessary but not sufficient -- Can consumers direct their own care? -- The limits of evidence -- Supply-induced demand -- Physicians go for the gold -- Hospitals flex their muscles -- Why do drugs cost so much? -- This market needs regulation -- Putting doctors together -- Why groups should take financial risk -- A real-world model for reform -- The end of insurance as we know it -- Getting down to nuts and bolts -- Universal health care -- Toward uniform hospital pricing -- Let "hospitalists" take charge -- Health planning and the CON -- What works best in practice? -- Must technology break the bank? -- Toward a rational system of rationing.