The Painful Prescription: Rationing Hospital Care
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Book Overview
In this book Aaron and Schwartz examine how the British have made those choices and draw inferences about how Americans would respond should they undertake to sharply reduce growth of medical spending. After describing the British health care system, they examine ten important medical procedures, comparing the British and American levels of care.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0815700334
ISBN13:9780815700333
Release Date:January 1984
Publisher:Brookings Institution Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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Timely reading (health care reform)
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I stumbled across this title in the NYT obits, a few weeks ago, when its author died. It is relevant, timely reading, right now, when we are in this health-care reform flurry. Not that anyone actually responsible for legislating the reform would read it (or hardly anything, for that matter -- busy, busy, busy), but we upon whom it is going to fall can maybe see what is inevitably coming, and why. It's a Brookings Institution title. That's one of those think-tanks, right? Dunno if they're of some "stripe" or not. No matter. The book seems relevant to me, right now. I do Medicare counseling on the side. My interest in how things work, and why, just keeps growing, though, as Solomon said, "increasing knowledge results in increasing pain." We're not in a perfect world.
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