Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System: (Even if the Answers Make You Sick) (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

Phelps, Charles E.

ISBN 10: 0817910549 / ISBN 13: 9780817910549

Published by Hoover Institution Press (edition First Edition), 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System: (Even if the Answers Make You Sick) (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817910549
• ISBN 13: 9780817910549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health-care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health-care sector behaves, and a detailed analysis of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” parts of the system—from technological advances (the “good”) to variations in treatment patterns (the “bad”) to hidden costs and perverse incentives (the “ugly”). He shows that much of the cost of health care ultimately derives from our own lifestyle choices and thus that education may well be the most powerful form of health reform we can envision.

About the Author

Charles E. Phelps is University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Rochester. He earned his B.A. in Mathematics from Pomona College, and his M.B.A. in Hospital Administration and Ph.D. in Business Economics from the University of Chicago.