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Money driven medicine : the real reason health care costs so much Cover Image Book

Money driven medicine : the real reason health care costs so much / Maggie Mahar.

Mahar, Maggie. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 006076533X
  • ISBN: 9780060765330
  • Physical Description: xxi, 451 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Collins, [2006]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-429) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. The road to corporate medicine -- 2. The cost of competition : an overview -- 3. For-profit hospitals : a flaw in the business model? -- 4. Not-for-profit hospitals : "no margin, no mission"? -- 5. When more care is not better care -- 6. "Too little, too late" : the cost of rationing care -- 7. Doing less and doing it right : is pay for performance the answer? -- 8. Device makers, drugmakers, and the FDA -- Where we are now : everyone out of the pool.

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Subject: Medical economics.
Medical care > Cost effectiveness.
Medical care.

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