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Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance in Countries Around the World, Virtually everyone agrees that our health care system needs reform. But what kind of reform? Some want a return to the system that prevailed in the 1950s. Others would like to see the adaptation of the government-run systems prevalent in other countries. , Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance in Countries Around the World

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Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance in Countries Around the World
Written by author Milton Friedman
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., August 2004
Virtually everyone agrees that our health care system needs reform. But what kind of reform? Some want a return to the system that prevailed in the 1950s. Others would like to see the adaptation of the government-run systems prevalent in other countries.
Lives at Risk identifies 20 myths about health care as delivered in countries that have national health insurance. These myths have gained the status of fact in both the United States and abroad, even though the evidence shows a far different reality. The

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Introduction : thinking about reform 1
1 Rights 17
2 Equality 27
3 Needs 43
4 Outcomes 49
5 Technology 59
6 Quality 67
7 Costs 77
8 Efficiency 85
9 Unnecessary care 93
10 Administrative costs 105
11 Priorities 115
12 Prevention 119
13 Managed care 129
14 International competitiveness 143
15 The elderly 147
16 Minorities 153
17 Rural areas 159
18 Prescription drugs 167
19 Public opinion 177
20 Reform 183
21 The politics of medicine 187
22 Is managed competition the answer? 201
23 Designing an ideal health care system 217
24 Designing ideal health insurance 235

Title: Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance in Countries Around the World

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Item Number: 9780742541528

Publication Date: August 2004

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

Width: 6.060 cm (2.39 inches)

Heigh : 8.960 cm (3.53 inches)

Depth: 0.820 cm (0.32 inches)

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	Introduction : thinking about reform	1
1	Rights	17
2	Equality	27
3	Needs	43
4	Outcomes	49
5	Technology	59
6	Quality	67
7	Costs	77
8	Efficiency	85
9	Unnecessary care	93
10	Administrative costs	105
11	Priorities	115
12	Prevention	119
13	Managed care	129
14	International competitiveness	143
15	The elderly	147
16	Minorities	153
17	Rural areas	159
18	Prescription drugs	167
19	Public opinion	177
20	Reform	183
21	The politics of medicine	187
22	Is managed competition the answer?	201
23	Designing an ideal health care system	217
24	Designing ideal health insurance	235