Explains why health care costs so much money, reveals why these costs are difficult to control, and reviews and analyzes several potential way to solve the health care problem.
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From Library Journal
The reporter who originated the science beat at Time tells us why those doctor bills are always so high.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Time associate editor Castro was the magazine's first health-policy reporter, authoring its 1991 "Condition Critical" cover story on the health-care crisis. The strengths of Castro's effort are her lucid, readable writing style and her insistence on the complexity of what is wrong with U.S. health care now and what is needed to make it better (i.e., to expand coverage, improve quality, and control costs). On the negative side, Castro exaggerates in some areas (alleging, for example, that hospital discharge planning didn't exist until "just a few years ago"), and the book as a whole--and particularly her summaries of competing reform legislation and of the pros and cons of other countries' health-care approaches--leaves little doubt that she prefers the market-dependent Jackson Hole version of managed competition. Still, for millions of citizens who rely on the current clumsy system and will depend on whatever modified arrangement may be enacted for the quality of their lives and health, Castro's work is one of the clearest explanations available of just what is at stake. Mary Carroll
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