The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

Amazon.com Price: $15.29 (as of 11/10/2019 11:52 PST- Details)

Description

Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine

For decades, experts have at a loss for words over why the United States spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We’ve left out of our tally the most impactful expenditures countries make to beef up the health of their populations—investments in social products and services.

In The American Health Care Paradox, Bradley and Taylor light up how narrow definitions of “health care,” archaic divisions in the distribution of health and social products and services, and our allergy to government programs combine to create unnecessary suffering in individual lives, while health care spending continues to soar. They show us how and why the United States health care “system” developed as it did; examine the constraints on, and possibilities for, reform; and profile inspiring new initiatives from all over the world.

Offering a unique and clarifying viewpoint on the problems the Affordable Care Act would possibly not solve, this book also points a new way forward.
Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Politics and Social Sciences » Politics and Government » Public Affairs and Policy » Economic Policy » The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

Recent Products