Miracle cure : how to solve America's health care crisis and why Canada isn't the answer

Pipes, Sally 1945- (Author). Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) (Added Author). Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0936488921
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 219 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Research Institute : Vancouver ; Fraser Institute, c2004.

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Foreword / Milton Friedman -- Introduction : why is health care such as mess and what can we do about it? -- Pt. 1. The US solution : expand consumer choice -- 1. What is the real nature of health care in the United States? -- 2. How did big government become big medicine? -- 3. How is Washington responding to health care now? -- 4. What is a third-party payer - and what's so bad about it? -- 5. Is managed care good or bad? -- 6. Why can't we get the best health care at the best prices? -- 7. What's wrong with tying health care to jobs? -- 8. Is there a better way than employer-sponsored health care? -- 9. So what is the solution? -- 10. How did medicare/medicaid get so big? -- 11. What about the condition of our seniors? -- 12. What's wrong with prescription-drug coverage for seniors? -- 13. Is there a solution for seniors? -- 14. What's the proper role for doctors? -- 15. What's the best role for insurance companies? -- 16. Why not crack down on greedy pharmaceutical companies? -- 17. How should we treat pharmaceuticals? -- 18. Why not just import cheap drugs? -- 19. What role do lawsuits play in increasing health care costs? -- 20. What does the future hold for quality in US health care? -- 21. How would consumer-driven health care affect doctors? : how could it benefit the uninsured, seniors, and all consumers? -- 22. Innovation is alive and well -- 23. Consumer power is the answer --