A Second Opinion A Plan for Universal Coverage Serving Patients Over Profit

by Relman, Arnold

• ISBN13: 9781586488062
• ISBN10: 1586488066
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-06
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

The U.S. Healthcare System is Still on the Brink of Disaster. Despite the Obama administration's landmark victory in passing legislation to extend private insurance to most uninsured Americans, health care expenditures are rising with frightening speed-and will continue to do so in the future. As Dr. Relman argues in this provocative book, based on sixty years' experience in medicine, "the new legislation...[does] little or nothing really effective to control rising costs or to change the organization and incentives of the medical care delivery system that are major causes of those costs."

Author Biography

Dr. Arnold S. Relman has taught at Boston University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. A member of the Health Professionals Review Group and the Board of Registration in Medicine, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Commercialization of U.S. Medicine	p. 15
The Consequences of Commercialized Care	p. 41
The Revolt of the Payers	p. 69
"Consumer-Driven" Health Care: The New New Thing	p. 93
The Reform We Need	p. 111
Can we Get There? Do We Want To?	p. 131
Lessons From Canada	p. 141
An Open Letter to My Colleagues in the Medical Profession	p. 159
Afterword to the Paperback Edition	p. 173
Acknowledgments	p. 187
Notes	p. 191
Index	p. 207
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