Code Red
An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It
Introduction
Our health-care system is the envy of the world because we believe in
making sure that the decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by
officials in the nation's capital.
-President George W. Bush, 2004.
Let's face it-if we were to start from scratch, none of us, from
dyed-in-the-wool liberals to rock-solid conservatives, would fashion the
kind of health care system America has inherited. So why should we carry
the problems of this system into the future?
-Senator Hillary Clinton, 2004
Envy of the world or not, no one seriously believes that the U.S.
healthcare system has fully achieved the three main goals that any nation
aspires to: access, efficiency and quality. For the better part of the
past one hundred years, the story of healthcare reform has been one of
trying to achieve these goals. For all of our efforts, they remain as
elusive as ever.
For much of the twentieth century, quality and efficiency took ... read full excerpt from Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It ebook
