Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails

by Sherry A. Glied

Book Overview

Chronic Condition provides a compelling analysis of the causes of the current health care crisis and of the shortcomings of reform proposals. It also offers an ingenious new framework for reform that, while minimizing government interference, would provide a means for financing care for the less affluent.

Sherry Glied shows that rising health care spending is consistent with a rising standard of living. Since we can, as a nation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674128931
• ISBN13: 9780674128934
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"