Cutler, David M.,

The quality cure : how focusing on health care quality can save your life and lower spending too / David Cutler. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages) : illustrations - The Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy ; 9 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cost, Access, and Quality: The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- The Value Proposition -- The Cost Control Debate -- The Quality Cure -- It's What You Know -- Pricing the Priceless -- Take Me to Your Leader -- How Long Will It Take?

"In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality Cure, renowned health care economist and former Obama advisor David Cutler offers an accessible and incisive account of the issues and their causes, as well as a road map for the future of health care reform --



9780520957763 9781306397650


Medical care.
Medical care--Quality control.
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Cost control.
Delivery of Health Care--economics
Quality of Health Care
Cost Control


Electronic Books.

RA399 / .Q355 2014