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Money driven medicine : the real reason health care costs so much
- Title
- Money driven medicine : the real reason health care costs so much / Maggie Mahar.
- Author
- Mahar, Maggie.
- Publication
- New York : Collins, [2006], ©2006.
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| Text | Request in advance | RA410 .M34 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 451 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Money-Driven Medicine, Maggie Mahar takes the reader behind the scenes of a $2 trillion industry to witness how billions of dollars are wasted in a Hobbesian marketplace that pits the industry's players against each other. In remarkably candid interviews, doctors, hospital administrators, patients, health care economists, corporate executives, and Wall Street analysts describe a war of "all against all" that can turn physicians, hospitals, insurers, drugmakers, and device makers into blood rivals. Rather than collaborating, doctors and hospitals compete. Rather than sharing knowledge, drugmakers and device makers divide value. Rather than thinking about long-term collective goals, the imperatives of an impatient marketplace force health care providers to focus on short-term fiscal imperatives. And so investments in untested bleeding-edge medical technologies crowd out investments in information technology that might, in the long run, not only reduce errors but contain costs."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-429) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The road to corporate medicine -- 2. The cost of competition : an overview -- 3. For-profit hospitals : a flaw in the business model? -- 4. Not-for-profit hospitals : "no margin, no mission"? -- 5. When more care is not better care -- 6. "Too little, too late" : the cost of rationing care -- 7. Doing less and doing it right : is pay for performance the answer? -- 8. Device makers, drugmakers, and the FDA -- Where we are now : everyone out of the pool.
- ISBN
- 006076533X
- 9780060765330
- LCCN
- 2005056023
- 9780060765330
- OCLC
- ocm62782263
- SCSB-5306854
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries