In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care

In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care

by Scott W. Atlas MD
In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care

In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care

by Scott W. Atlas MD

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Overview

In Excellent Health offers an alternative view of the much maligned state of health care in America, using facts and peer-reviewed data to challenge the statistics often cited as evidence that medical care in the United States is substandard and poor in value relative to that of other countries. The author proposes a complete plan for reform in three critical areas of the health care puzzle—tax structure, private insurance markets, and government health insurance programs—designed to maintain choice and access to excellence and facilitate competition.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780817914448
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Publication date: 01/01/2012
Series: Hoover Institution Press Publication Series , #567
Edition description: 1st Edition
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Dr. Scott W. Atlas is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of radiology and chief of neuroradiology at the Stanford University Medical Center, and senior fellow by courtesy at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables ix

Author's Note xvii

Foreword John Raisian xix

Preface xxi

1 The WHO Ranking of Health Systems Redux: A Critical Appraisal 1

2 The Limited Value of Life Expectancy Comparisons in Ranking Health Systems 19

3 Infant Mortality as an Indicator of Health and Health Care 47

4 Measuring Medical Care Quality in the United States 97

5 Evaluating Access to America's Medical Care 159

6 Specialists and Medical Innovation: The Best of the Best 211

7 Maintaining Excellence While Reducing Costs: An American Solution 233

Notes 293

About the Author 337

About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on Health Care Policy 339

Index 341

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