Priceless: curing the healthcare crisis

Preface

1. Introduction

Part I. Why We Are Trapped

2. How Healthcare Is Different

3. Why People Disagree About Health Policy

Part II. The Consequences of Being Trapped

4. What Being Trapped Means to You

5. Why Do We Spend So Much on Healthcare?

6. Why Is There a Problem with Quality?

7. Why Is There a Problem with Access to Care?

8. Why Can't You Buy Real Health Insurance?

Part III. Letting People Out of the Trap

9. Empowering Patients

10. Liberating Institutions

11. Designing Ideal Health Insurance

12. Solving the Problem of Patient Safety

13. The Do-No-Harm Approach to Public Policy

Part IV. Letting Government Out of the Trap

14. Reforming Medicare

15. Reforming Medicaid

16. Understanding the New Healthcare Law

17. What Most Needs Repealing and Replacing in the New Healthcare Law

18. Conclusion

Notes

Index

About the Author.