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An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry - Balancing Care, Cost, and Access (Hardcover)
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An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry - Balancing Care, Cost, and Access (Hardcover)
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Why does US health care have such high costs and poor outcomes? Dr.
David S. Guzick offers this critique of the American health care
industry and argues that it could work more effectively by
rebalancing care, cost, and access. For decades, the United States
has been faced with a puzzling problem: Despite spending much more
money per capita on health care than any other developed nation,
its population suffers from notoriously poorer health. In
comparison with 10 other high-income nations, in fact, the US has
the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest rates of infant
and neonatal mortality, and the most inequitable access to
physicians when adjusted for need. In An Introduction to the US
Health Care Industry, Dr. David S. Guzick takes an in-depth look at
this troubling issue. Bringing to bear his unique background as a
physician, economist, former University of Rochester medical school
dean, and former president of the University of Florida Health
System, Dr. Guzick shows that what we commonly refer to as the US
health care "system" is actually an industry forged by a unique
collection of self-interested and disjointed stakeholders. He
argues that the assumptions underlying well-functioning markets do
not align with health care. The resulting market imperfections,
combined with entrenched industry stakeholders, have led to a
significant imbalance of care, cost, and access. Using a
nontechnical framework, Dr. Guzick introduces readers to the
economic principles behind the function-and dysfunction-of our
health care industry. He shows how the market-based approach could
be expected to remedy these problems while detailing the realities
of imperfections, regulations, and wealth inequality on those
functions. He also analyzes how this industry developed, presenting
the conceptual underpinnings of the health care industry while
detailing its history and tracing the creation and entrenchment of
the current federation of key stakeholders-government, insurance
companies, hospitals, doctors, employers, and drug and device
manufacturers. In the final section of the book, Dr. Guzick looks
to the future, describing the prevention, innovation, and
alternative financing models that could help to rebalance the
priorities of care, cost, and access that Americans need. An online
supplement on COVID-19 is available, as is a discussion guide for
instructors. To access this supplemental material, please visit
www.jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu.
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