Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and how to Free itGovernment control has driven health care costs sky-high at the same time that it has reduced the quality of care. As America's health care system cries out for reform, should policymakers embrace even more government planning, or should they fight for more individual freedom? In this updated edition of their 2005 book, the authors tackle proposals that would let government manage even more of America's health care sector. The continuing problem of ever-rising health care costs makes this book as timely as ever. |
Contents
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7 Choice and Competition or Controls? | 115 |
8 Medical Malpractice Reform | 143 |
Conclusion | 149 |
Notes | 153 |
Index | 179 |
About the Authors | 191 |
Cato Institute | 194 |
Back Cover | 195 |
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Page 115 - In fact, the vortices have been exploded, and the Newtonian principle of gravitation is now more firmly established, on the basis of reason, than it would be were the government to step in, and to make it an article of necessary faith. Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them.
Page 115 - It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons.
Page 152 - Deaths Due to Medical Errors Are Exaggerated in Institute Of Medicine Report.
Page 78 - Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided...
Page 120 - FDA staff could not be clearer. Whenever a controversy over a new drug is resolved by its approval, the Agency and the individuals involved likely will be investigated. Whenever such a drug is disapproved, no inquiry will be made. The Congressional pressure for our negative action on new drug applications is, therefore, intense.
Page 163 - Beneath the surface: Barriers threaten to slow progress on expanding health coverage of children and families.
Page 81 - CMS's payment systems do not reward providers who deliver higher quality care or punish providers who deliver lower quality care. As the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reported, the Medicare payment system is "largely neutral or negative towards quality.... At times providers are paid even more when quality is worse, such as when complications occur as the result of error.
Page 162 - Measuring underuse of necessary care among elderly Medicare beneficiaries using inpatient and outpatient claims.
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