Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost

Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost

by Scott W. Atlas MD
Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost

Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost

by Scott W. Atlas MD

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Overview

Dr. Scott W. Atlas examines the status of US health care under the Affordable Care Act and presents key reforms to meet the nation’s significant health care challenges. Updated for 2020, the revised edition includes the facts about single-payer systems and the implications of Medicare for All proposals. Atlas’s six-point incentive-based plan instills market-based competition, empowers consumers, and reduces government authority over health care. These reforms lower costs, stimulate innovation, and broaden access to quality care.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780817923952
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Publication date: 09/01/2020
Edition description: Second edition
Pages: 178
Sales rank: 1,149,812
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Scott W. Atlas, MD, is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a member of Hoover’s Working Group on Health Care Policy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables ix

Preface xiii

Chapter 1 Setting the Record Straight on US Health Care, Single-Payer Systems, and Medicare for All 1

Chapter 2 Reform #1: Expand Affordable Private Insurance 29

Chapter 3 Reform #2: Establish and Liberalize Universal Health Savings Accounts 43

Chapter 4 Reform #3: Instill Rational Tax Treatment of Health Spending with Appropriate Incentives 51

Chapter 5 Reform #4: Modernize Medicare for the Twenty-First Century 57

Chapter 6 Reform #5: Overhaul Medicaid and Eliminate the Second-Class System for Poor Americans 69

Chapter 7 Reform #6: Strategically Increase Health Care Supply, Create Transparency, and Foster Innovation 75

Key Questions and Answers on the Atlas Plan 95

Notes 133

About the Author 150

Index 151

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