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Drawing on decades of experience in health care policy, health care delivery reform, and economics, Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh provide a non-partisan analysis of the reform and what it means for America and its future.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Deal Makers, Deal Breakers
Health Insurers: What Did They Get?
The Drug Deal of the Century
Hospitals and Doctors: Their Take-Away
Who Pays for Trillion Dollar Health Reform?
Part II:How Health Care Reform Did Not Reform Health Care
How the AMA Killed the Family Doctor
The Real Reason Hospitals Don't Stop Harming Patients
Hospitals: Do This, Not That
How Health Care Caught the Wall Street Fever
Too Big to Fail Just Got Bigger
If Only They Were IPhones
Part IV: Until Debt Do Us Part
Good-bye Busboys
Promises Made, Promises Broken
Government By Default
Part V: Privatize the Gains, Privatize the Losses
The Real Medical Malpractice Fix
Health Care Fraud: Follow the Money
10 Steps to More Affordable Health Care
References
About the author
Rosemary Gibson is a distinguished leader in U.S. health care. At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she designed and led national initiatives to improve health care. She was vice president of the Economic and Social Research Institute and served as senior associate at the American Enterprise Institute. She is principal author of Wall of Silence and The Treatment Trap. She serves as an editor for the Archives of Internal Medicine series, Less is More.
Janardan Prasad Singh is an economist at the World Bank. He has been a member of the International Advisory Council for several prime ministers of India. He worked on economic policy at the American Enterprise Institute and on foreign policy at the United Nations. He has written extensively on health care, social policy, and economic development. He was a member of the Board of Contributors of the Wall Street Journal. He is co-author of Wall of Silence and The Treatment Trap.
Summary
Drawing on decades of experience in health care policy, health care delivery reform, and economics, Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh provide a non-partisan analysis of the reform and what it means for America and its future.
