Battle Over Health Care (eBook)

Rosemary Gibson is a distinguished leader in U.S. health care. At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she designed and led national initiatives to improve health care. She was vice president of the Economic and Social Research Institute and served as senior associate at the American Enterprise Institute. She is principal author of Wall of Silence and The Treatment Trap. She serves as an editor for the Archives of Internal Medicine series, Less is More. Janardan Prasad Singh is an economist at the World Bank. He has been a member of the International Advisory Council for several prime ministers of India. He worked on economic policy at the American Enterprise Institute and on foreign policy at the United Nations. He has written extensively on health care, social policy, and economic development. He was a member of the Board of Contributors of the Wall Street Journal. He is co-author of Wall of Silence and The Treatment Trap.

IntroductionPart I: Deal Makers, Deal Breakers Health Insurers: What Did They Get? The Drug Deal of the CenturyHospitals and Doctors: Their Take-Away Who Pays for Trillion Dollar Health Reform? Part II:How Health Care Reform Did Not Reform Health CareHow the AMA Killed the Family Doctor The Real Reason Hospitals Don’t Stop Harming Patients Hospitals: Do This, Not That How Health Care Caught the Wall Street Fever Too Big to Fail Just Got Bigger If Only They Were IPhones Part IV: Until Debt Do Us Part Good-bye Busboys Promises Made, Promises Broken Government By Default Part V: Privatize the Gains, Privatize the Losses The Real Medical Malpractice Fix Health Care Fraud: Follow the Money 10 Steps to More Affordable Health Care References